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00:00The wild coast, as the term itself says, is the cozza that is not grown but grows spontaneously in its habitat.
00:12And off the coast of Marina di Ravenna, the habitat has found it on the pylons of the Eni platforms,
00:17which for decades have been in the open sea off the coast of the river.
00:21A valued variety, the best there is, say the fishermen of the local cooperatives,
00:25who every year, from the end of May to September, collect from 12,000 to 14,000 tons.
00:31And like every year the celebration of the wild coast of Marina di Ravenna,
00:35the SAGRA, which celebrates this specialty, has included the visit of the Eni platforms
00:40to see live where and how these molluscs are caught.
00:44This initiative is very important to us.
00:47It is a moment in the program of the day that wants to tell a very particular synergy
00:54between different realities.
00:56Ours, of the energy world, of Eni, that of the fishermen who collect the wild coast of Marina di Ravenna,
01:04of high quality and highly sought after.
01:07The environmental and environmental protection activities,
01:12carried out in this case by the experimental center Tutela Habitat of Marina di Ravenna,
01:18and why not also by the tourism sector.
01:21What until a few years ago was a job of maintenance of the pylons,
01:25since Eni still had the need to collect these molluscs to avoid resistance to the wavy motion,
01:30thanks to a synergy with the fishermen it has become an economic activity.
01:34Sauro Aleati, president of the cooperative La Romagnola and Cozzaro della Primaora,
01:40who from the boat followed the operations of his boys with the strong current to make everything more difficult.
01:46Having the material of the result, which are the coasts,
01:51first they were thrown to the sea, then it was understood that they have an economic value,
01:57and on this we work until we have made a quality mark the wild coast of Marina di Ravenna,
02:04which is, in my opinion, the first quality in Italy.
02:11And also this year, in collaboration with the CESTA, the experimental center Tutela degli Habitat,
02:16the excursion was the occasion for the release in the open sea of three sea turtles,
02:21Thelma and Louise and Nilde.
02:23The first two arrived together on the same day after being accidentally caught by a fisherman,
02:29like most turtles.
02:31The release under the platforms is a strategic choice,
02:35because the platforms play a role of protection of the sea,
02:39both for all the fauna and flora that develop in the submerged part,
02:42and because they have regulations that prohibit access to traffic and activities, especially fishing.
02:48It is exactly the safest place to release the animals,
02:51they will obviously move, swim, go where they want,
02:54but at least in the first moments of release, of confidence again with the sea,
02:58after the period of captivity, they certainly have less danger than elsewhere.