Mission Mazara

Both the citizens and the Municipality of Mazara del Vallo wholehearthedly share the objectives and approach of the EU Mission Restore our Oceans and Waters dy 2030.

In order to best contribute to it, the city's development plan of the years to come was aligned with the Mission implementation plan resulting in a series of projects and initiatives and in a Strategic Mission Deployment Agenda called “Mission Mazara”.

Mission Mazara encompasses actions where Mazara del Vallo will be more than happy to follow the Mediterranean Lighthouse recommendations as well as other actions where the Municipality aims to be in the front line. In view of example, the latter type includes:
- enabling fishermen to collect plastic from the sea to be re-used for recreational resorts of children/youths
- developing a digital knowledge system to enable fish value chain data collection, storage and sharing with the fisherman community of Mahdia (the municipality in Tunisia with which Mazara del Vallo has a long-lasting collaboration agreement).

Involvement and engagement of citizen during the whole Mission Mazara will be paramount, specially the young generation which will have to continue (or at least not to discontinue) Mazara del Vallo’s tradition of most important fishing port in Italy. For this purpose, a dedicated information and communication plan aimed to co-designing Mission Mazara with citizens is being launched.

Finally, Mazara del Vallo has the ambition to promote a sort of “coalition for the Mission” of fishing/coastal cities in Italy so as to act together and “leave no one behind”.