Legislation measures

Worn out gear and other requipement collection and recycling services should be better promoted, upcycling and repurposing should be financially encouraged by governements.

Policy Policy

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Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Baltic

Relevant stage:

Removal and recycling

Related Barriers:

  • Very little or no information exchange and dialogue about innovative solutions of waste management (i.e. common sourcing/funding/monitoring/best practice replication) and new materials with higher recyclability.

Related Good Practice:

R&R GP1.3

Cooperation in collecting waste between several seafood companies

SeaBOS (Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship), one of the top 10 world’s largest seafood companies (founded 2 years ago) has aligned its policies for ocean stewardship and seafood standards relating to fishing and aquaculture. Their aim is to get retailers – also from the Baltic Sea Region - to adopt those policies, which consequently would force the entire supply chain to introduce new standards and to have a visible impact on the seafood industry as a whole within the next year (2020). One of their 6 task forces works on the topic of reducing ocean plastics – to ensure that SeaBOS members map the sources, presence and type of plastics in their seafood production, as well as identify ways to improve ocean health by removing plastics from the ocean environment. The task force will contribute to the development of a strategy, based on scientific knowledge, existing best practices and the frontiers of innovation. A stronger involvement of aquaculture farmers is planned.