Responsibility measures

Cost-risk assessments related to easy-to-lose materials containing plastic should be part of the normal, internal assessments of companies, similar to the health-risk assessments or others

Farmer/user responsibility Farmer/user responsibility

Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

North

Relevant stage:

Prevention and reduction

Related Barriers:

  • No higher taxes on small and cheap disposable plastic gear items are raised, lowering the motivation of farmers to keep and recover them or use alternative materials.

  • Top-down (legal) approaches are absent to forbid easy-to-lose single-use plastic items.

  • 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.

  • There is not enough knowledge on the existence of sustainable alternatives for aquaculture material.

Related Good Practice:

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