Responsibility measures

Create pre-scheduled surveillance plans to obtain information on the life cycle, durability and resistance, etc of the gear and the items used. These plans can be the basis of the farmers’ customized traceability systems.

Farmer/user responsibility Farmer/user responsibility

Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Mediterranean

Relevant stage:

Prevention and reduction

Related Barriers:

  • The environmental criteria related to the approval of aquaculture facilities do not include specifications on the non-organic litter management in some Spanish autonomous communities.

  • In Greece, there is no specific environmental legislation concerning mussel culture and its waste management

  • In Italy, only finfish farms have to pass through an environmental assessment before starting the activity. Shellfish farms are not obliged to make this assessment.

  • Specific criteria related to non-organic marine litter are lacking in the Environmental Surveillance Plans (PVA in Spanish).

  • The aquaculture governance structure in Spain is complicated with a lack of homogenization at a national level in relation to the requirements, guidelines and authorization requests in the different autonomous communities

Related Good Practice:

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