The fishermen from Olho are honored once again by the City Council on May 31, on the National Fisherman's Day. The official commemorations begin at 16 pm, with the award ceremony for the fishermen of Olhão, taking place in the Main Hall of the Paços do Concelho.
«In a council of sea and seafarers, the municipality pays tribute to those who make fishing their way of life», says the Municipality of Olhão.
According to the municipality of Olhano, "distinctions will be awarded in the areas of trawling, siege, local and coastal multipurpose, armature, aquaculture (mollusciculture), walk-on shellfish collector, woman in fishing and aquaculture, younger fisherman, marine engineer, fisherman in progression, industry canning and the Merit Prize in Fishing, the greatest distinction of the day».
At 16:45 pm, at the same location, the official launch of the “Maritime Citizenship” project will take place, under the responsibility of the Maritime Authority.
The day of homage to fishermen from Olhão continues at the Municipal Museum of Olhão, «a place with a very strong symbolic charge, since it was in that building that the Maritime Commitment once functioned», explains the City Council.
It is in this building that, at 17 pm, the Revista de Estudos Maritimes do Algarve – Embarco will be launched.
Thirty minutes later, the exhibition “Mãos do Mar de Olhão” is inaugurated, a selection of photographs from various periods that are part of the collection of the Municipal Museum of Olhão and portray the daily life of trades linked to the sea.
The celebrations of the National Fisherman's Day in Olhão close at the Municipal Museum, with a tasting of fish from the national auctions (mackerel and horse mackerel), an initiative of the responsibility of Docapesca.
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