Support measures

Economic incentives could motivate offshore workers to collect and sort waste.

Support for waste management Support for waste management

Photo: Christian Dubovan Photo: Christian Dubovan

Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Baltic

Relevant stage:

Removal and recycling

Related Barriers:

  • Market incentives for the effective participation in separate collection or for the return of special types of aquaculture gear (like cages) in the form of deposit return schemes are lacking.

  • Some waste collection centres do not accept to take in the non-organic waste from shellfish producers. A common waste collection policy should be elaborated and enforced.

  • There is a lack of waste management infrastructure with, e.g. insufficient opportunities to collect, sort and reuse waste in ports or other defined collection sites.

  • 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.

Related Good Practice:

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