Legislation measures

Measures such as product bans or design requirements are best established at EU level while for reduction targets for aquaculture products it is better to give Member States some choice on the measures, including the use of economic instruments.

Policy Policy

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Targets are assumed to be as a percentage of the total consumption, but per capita targets could also be set as is the case under the plastic carrier bags Directive.

Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Baltic

Relevant stage:

Prevention and reduction

Related Barriers:

  • Designers and manufacturers of aquaculture equipment are not sufficiently aware and motivated to seek alternative materials that would make their products more resistant and less polluting.

  • Top-down (legal) approaches are absent to forbid easy to lose single-use plastic items.

  • There is a lack of alternative materials for the aquaculture sector that have the same characteristics like the current materials but without plastics, e.g. for buoys.

Related Good Practice:

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