Responsibility measures

Focus on the design of aquaculture facilites in creating stable and solid infrastructures to minimize losses and damages. All aquaculture gear should be able to attach to other items to avoid loss or damage.

Producer responisbility Producer responisbility

Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Baltic

Relevant stage:

Prevention and reduction

Related Barriers:

  • Companies often lack internal cost-risk assessments related to easy-to-lose plastic materials.

  • 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.

  • Durable mateials may reduce the number of sold gear which is not in line with economic interests.

  • Lack of political will.

Related Good Practice:

P&R GP7.2

The SMART Farm system

A system that is shifting to different types of mussel technique. For example, the Norwegian Smart Farm compnaniy developed mooring-buoys which are fixed on the anchor-ropes. The complete unit is designed so it only needs 2 shackles to connect into the mooring-system. It was designed to keep the system in place both in open waters and sheltered sites and also takes aspects of sustainable material use into account.