Support measures

In many Baltic Sea countries like in Poland or Sweden, the utilization of updated documentation of Best Available Technologies (BAT) is considered the most efficient tool when communicating with the respective authority. Often, a municipal or communal authority has only very limited experience in dealing with aquaculture. In Germany, these documents are less frequently updated and are developed by aquaculture experts from state authorities, typically state-driven research institutions, in close connection with producers and other experienced stakeholders. Therefore, these BAT documents have the highest effectiveness and impact – also on the reduction of debris - when they are formulated by practitioners and other experts (including scientists), when they are publicly available and visually appealing and are also regularly referenced in other contexts (e.g. as an industry standard in a marketing context) as well as being living documents, i.e. under regular review.