Support measures

Include flexible research and/or investigative monitoring to increase knowledge of specific impacts.

Support for monitoring Support for monitoring

Photo: Mariana Mata-Lara Photo: Mariana Mata-Lara

Relevant type of aquaculture:

Fish Shellfish Seaweed

Relevant sea basin:

Baltic

Relevant stage:

Monitoring and quantification

Related Barriers:

  • 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.

  • Established monitoring approaches are often not linked with research and new technologies.

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

Related Good Practice:

M&Q GP3.2

Apply flexible survey methods

According to new Danish law (on waste management and circular design), companies that own fish cages are obliged to make a survey of the seabed to assess the amount of litter they produce. The survey is flexible and will be continuously extended to meet needs to better assess marine litter derived of this specific type of aquaculture.