Motril fishermen have donated 17,000 kilos – 17 metric tonnes – of fish to Food Banks. They have also fished out 41,600 kilos of ‘inorganic refuse’ from the sea.

They might be broke and have trouble putting food on their own plates, but that does not stop them from performing this act of solidarity for those in a similar or worse economic state.

This is all fruit of a project called Fresh Fish from Motril – Clean Waters, which is a pioneering idea not only in Spain, but in the rest of the Mediterranean.

According to Cádiz University professor, Enrique Montero, these tonnes of fresh fish have been distributed to the needy all over the province. Translating the types of fish included in the catches is a nightmare but let’s just say that just about everything edible is amongst them and were dispatched to 150 food-distribution centres around the Province of Granada.

The project is backed both by the European Union and the Regional Government (La Junta)

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)