Legislation measures

In some areas e.g. for recreational fishing, privately organized deposit systems are already existing and basically conceivable at the local level.

Policy Policy

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Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Baltic

Relevant stage:

Removal and recycling

Related Barriers:

  • The cost of collection and transport of end-of-life aquaculture gear are yet not organised with the involvement of materials producers. At present that cost is mostly left to the ports– this is particularly relevant in a sector where both ports, and the farmers are often small-scale.

  • There is a lack of cooperation between different sectors like aquaculture, fisheries and agriculture to collect a needed amount of gear to assure recycling. Recycling will only be taken up on a larger scale if it is economically beneficial.

  • Too less data about amount of collected aquacutlure gear waste.

Related Good Practice:

R&R GP8.2

Local deposit for regional fishing association members

A German specialist dealer for fishing equipment, whose owner is a member of a regional fishing association (KAV), is taking a deposit of 50 cents on the plastic fishing bait boxes when selling baits (Breitbarth 2013). When the banks of the river Fulda in Kassel were inspected in 2013 by the waste technology department of the University of Kassel at the time, no such bait boxes could be found in the river section of the KAV's lease area at the fishing spots in the bank areas, while in the adjacent lease area of ​​another fishing association such bait boxes were very common on - and found in the water. The deposit system is based on trusted identification within the fishing association, the members of which are authorized to fish in leasehold waters or issue licenses for this.