Support measures

Offer incentives to those farmers who comply with monitoring efforts.

Support for monitoring Support for monitoring

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Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Baltic

Relevant stage:

Monitoring and quantification

Related Barriers:

  • Integrated procedures for effective monitoring of the aquaculture farms are missing.

  • There is a lack of well-designed, practical and short to long-term monitoring schemes.

Related Good Practice:

M&Q GP1.1

Incentives for compliance with monitoring and reporting schemes

Incentives for compliance with monitoring and reporting schemes: Install a principle by which responsible aquaculture farmers are distinguished from irresponsible ones. The core of this solution could be e.g. a voluntary “responsible aquaculture scheme” that interested farmers could commit themselves to. The scheme would expect compliance to a set of requirements (improved gear marking, better cooperation with controls, improved monitoring and reporting of gear loss) and in return the market could offer these aquaculture companies or family farms economic rewards e.g. by prioritizing their “littering – free aquaculture“ and by paying a higher price. There are plans at local/regional level in Skane county (SE), within a LEADER project working to promote locally-caught fish, to include “ghost fishing-free” as one argument for consumers to choose more environmentally-friendly produced fish. This idea could be adapted to the aquaculture sector as well.(Idea of a Swedish participant of the Baltic Sea LL)