Responsibility measures

Introduce a sustainable label on seafood to support the food and consumer value chain. The label needs to be universal at EU level. Similar approaches should be taken for sustainable mateirals used in the sector whith defined sustainability criteria.

Producer responisbility Producer responisbility

Photo: Kirk Widra Photo: Kirk Widra

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.

  • Especially young designers depend on the insturcitons of gear producers and do often not dare to test new approaches to prevent, alter or reduce gear material.

  • Lack of political support.

Related Good Practice:

P&R GP 6.1

Improve requirements for ASC standards

A new white paper from ASC (“Marine Litter and Aquaculture Gear” – published on November 28, 2019) aims to gather evidence from various sources including 60 ASC certified farms to update the ASC standards; and finds that the three main causes of plastic pollution from aquaculture can be classified as: mismanagement, deliberate discharge, and extreme weather.