Responsibility measures

Tagging lost items can help to track them. This is usually done with buoys and with essential structures (e.g. long floating pipes). This approach should be open for crossborder collaboration to enable an easy exchange of gear waste between countries, also related to joint recycling plants to increase the amount of waste.

Farmer/user responsibility Farmer/user responsibility

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Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

North

Relevant stage:

Monitoring and quantification

Related Barriers:

  • The (national/regional) monitoring programmes from the government are currently not sufficient as a knowledge base for the aquaculture sector.

  • There is a lack of procedures for effective monitoring of the aquaculture farms.

  • There is not enough structural support and resources available for environmental enhancement initiatives like beach clean-ups and recycling projects, which could yield a massive amount of useful information if collected in a standardised way and made public.

  • To install any aquaculture infrastructure, you need a concession/license. To get this license, and to get it renewed, you need to follow the environmental criteria. This is mandatory for all infrastructures of all offshore sectors, but is not sufficient to monitor litter from aquaculture farms.

Related Good Practice:

M&Q GP 2.1

Tracking equipment

The “Lost Gear Finder” from Furuno Norge is a solution to retrieve lost gear from fishermen or the aquaculture sector. A transponder is attached to the gear and a transducer is installed on board, as well as a processor connected to a monitor. In case of gear loss, the user can search for lost gear's position underwater. The effective range for the transducer is as much as 5000 meters, which makes the search very efficient. When the onboard unit receives response from the transponder, the position is calculated quickly and lost gear is easily found.