Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-BC) has registered a Non-Law Proposal (PNL) in the Parliament of the Canary Islands for the creation of the first "Sea Museum" of Lanzarote, which would be located in the capital of Arrecife and would focus on the dissemination and recognition of the culture and history of fishing activity.
From the Canarian organization they consider that the society of Lanzarote, and specifically that of Arrecife, has a historical debt with the fishing sector, being an activity that is directly linked to the identity of the people of Lanzarote but, on the other hand, has been losing social and institutional importance.
For this reason, the Canarian nationalists will urge the Government of the Canary Islands to get involved in the creation of the first museum of its competence that would exist in Lanzarote, the only island that does not have a museum center at the regional level. Thus, they want this first museum to recognize the cultural and historical work of the fishing sector that has given and continues to give so much to the island's society.
For Yoné Caraballo, deputy of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, "this sea museum would be the least we would have to do from public institutions to recognize a sector that is part of our identity as islanders and Canarians. It is not understood how it has not been done until now, and priority has been given to other alleged museums culturally and historically far from Lanzarote and Arrecife."
For his part, the president of the Local Committee of NC-BC in Arrecife, Servando Pérez, thanked the groups and people who have fought for decades for this demand to materialize, such as the Torrelavega Cultural Society and Domingo Delgado, who have also actively participated in the elaboration of the PNL that will be discussed in the Canarian Chamber.
With everything, NC-BC hope and wish that justice is done in favor of the fishing tradition of Lanzarote and that the Parliament of the Canary Islands recognizes the work of the hundreds of workers who dedicated themselves and still dedicate themselves today to this noble activity.
"It is an act of historical justice and construction of Canarian identity," says Yoné Caraballo.