Estamos nas praias, nas bateas, nas lonxas e nas fábricas. Coñecemos o mar, coidámolo e traballámolo cada día.
Pero seguimos sen estar, na mesma medida, nos espazos onde se decide.
Durante demasiado tempo, as mulleres do mar fomos invisibilizadas nos órganos de dirección e nos postos de liderado. Mentres o noso traballo sostén o sector, a nosa voz continúa infrarrepresentada nas confrarías e nas estruturas onde se toman decisións que afectan ao noso futuro.
Non é falta de capacidade.
Non é falta de experiencia.
É unha desigualdade que xa non estamos dispostas a aceptar.
Reclamamos recoñecemento para o noso traballo.
Reclamamos representación nos espazos de decisión.
Reclamamos o dereito a participar, decidir e liderar no sector que tamén construímos.
Porque sen nós non hai marisqueo, nin bateas, nin lonxas, nin cadea do mar que funcione.
Somos mulleres do mar, mulleres salgadas.
E tamén queremos estar onde se toman as decisións.
Where the sea breaks, our strength rises.
We are shellfish gatherers, mussel farmers, fishing net makers, fishmongers, and workers in seafood processing and trade. Generation after generation, we have sustained life along the Galician coast and helped build the fishing and seafood sector as it exists today.
We are on the beaches, on the mussel rafts, in the fish markets and in the processing plants. We know the sea.
We work in the sea and we care and look after it every day.
But we are not always present where decisions are made.
For too long, women of the sea have been invisible in leadership and decision-making spaces. While our work sustains the sector, our voices remain underrepresented in fishers’ guilds and in the institutions that shape the future of the sea.
It is not a lack of skills.
It is not a lack of experience.
It is a structural inequality that we are no longer willing to accept.
We demand recognition for our work.
We demand representation in decision-making spaces.
We demand the right to participate, decide and lead in the sector we also sustain.
Because without us there is no shellfishing, no mussel farming, no fish markets, no operational seafood sector.
We are women of the sea
And we belong where decisions are made
