Support measures

Awareness raising workshops for aquaculture farmers can be beneficial, but in addition to raising awareness, they should be beneficial for the producers themselves. Solutions and good practices, for example, could be more commonly shared so that producers themselves see clear next steps to follow.

Support for education, communication and awareness-raising Support for education, communication and awareness-raising

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Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

North

Relevant stage:

Prevention and reduction

Related Barriers:

  • Guidelines and specifications for different types of materials and equipment are lacking. A difference should be made between consumables; i.e. single or short use materials and durables; i.e. long use materials.

  • Research and innovation activities do not support sufficiently the aquaculture developments, e.g. cooperation with universities doing material research including their impact on the environment.

  • The sector needs more information exchange and dialogue (e.g. workshops, trainings, forums, common toolboxes, free best practice guidelines, etc.).

  • A leadership within the entire sector to better implement innovative solutions of waste management (i.e. common sourcing/ funding/monitoring/best practice replication, etc.) is missing.

Related Good Practice:

P&R GP8.1

Awareness raising workshops

Pro Sea is a foundation in the Netherlands that has a long track record of providing marine awareness courses for 20 years to maritime professionals. They develop teaching materials dealing with marine litter for the shipping industry. They also organise workshops for professionals and are very familiar with the fisheries and shipping sector. Similar work targeting the aquaculture sector would be very beneficial.