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PLOCAN promotes ocean literacy in classrooms through the Canary Islands Blue Schools Network
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) has promoted the launch and consolidation in Gran Canaria of the Canary Islands Blue Schools Network, which it coordinates. This initiative will connect educational centres and marine education organisations to strengthen ocean literacy on the island, facilitate access to resources and new funding opportunities, and accelerate the
FISHER GUARDIANS boosts the recycling of end-of-life fishing nets in San Cristóbal as a lever for the circular economy and ocean protection
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN), as coordinating entity of the European project PHAROS, held today at the San Cristóbal Fishers’ Cooperative (Pescatobal) the FISHER GUARDIANS workshop, an awareness-raising session aimed primarily at the local fishing community—though also open to the general public—to promote the proper management and recycling of end-of-life fishing nets