Support measures

Member States with coasts and marine waters will have to ensure that aquaculture and fishing gear are collected separately for recycling with a national minimum annual collection rate. This can be achieved by offering a sorting system for different materials. The SUPD, however, does not provide a specific collection rate. This has to be delivered by national governments and specific commissions.

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Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Baltic

Relevant stage:

Removal and recycling

Related Barriers:

  • Market incentives for the effective participation in separate collection or for the return of special types of aquaculture gear (like cages) in the form of deposit return schemes are lacking.

  • Procedures for dismantling are not economically efficient today and should be further optimized. Manual dismantling processes only exist in some Baltic Sea countries and transport across countries is expensive.

  • Weak transport opportunities of gear between ports and recycling facilities.

  • There is a lack of waste management infrastructure with, e.g. insufficient opportunities to collect, sort and reuse waste in ports or other defined collection sites.

Related Good Practice:

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