Responsibility measures

Purchase very resistant material to harsh conditions.

Farmer/user responsibility Farmer/user responsibility

Photo: Torsten Dederichs Photo: Torsten Dederichs

Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Mediterranean

Relevant stage:

Prevention and reduction

Related Barriers:

  • In general, the design of the gear is not optimized to the harsh marine conditions where some of the aquaculture activities take place.

  • The prevention of marine litter should be the base of the circular economy. Currently, gear producers are not considerably involved or interested in this type of approach

Related Good Practice:

P&R GP1.1

Farmers purchase very resistant anti-predator nets for mussels farming

Those nets can be considered themselves as a preventive measure for reducing the gear losses. Besides, those nets are being selected by the shellfish farmers depending on their resistance, to maximize their use. Once they have reached the end-of-life, mussel farmers clean them, dry them off and bring them to the larger-items waste management collection point (which is actually the best current practice, while there is no specific EPR system in place).