Support Measures
Technical support
Improve cooperation between aquaculture farmers and other sectors.
Improve collaboration between small and/or large aquaculture companies.
Share costs of monitoring and set up a feasible monitoring schedule or programme for offshore facilities/other
sectors/multi-use approaches.
A GPS-system can be used to follow the infrastructure’s active location with satellite.
Tagging lost items can help to track them. This is usually done with buoys, which are not environment-friendly by
themselves. It is therefore necessary to improve the tracking system in order to trace the material back to its owner.
This should be done on a Pan-Baltic level so that knowledge about littering and real ‘litter’ items can be exchanged
between countries
Passive RFID technology with its cost-effective production and embedding of information provides a good basis for the
identification of lost aquaculture (and fishing) gear. Also other technologies like the Passive Acoustic Transponder
should be taken into account.
A way to improve tracking and monitoring how much litter has been collected (e.g. by the aquaculture company, citizens,
NGOs) is to weigh collected litter at the harbour and to give a receipt of the kg that have been collected.
Aquaculture gear tracking and environmental data should be combined with an assessment of the causes of gear loss during
aquaculture installations and operations to identify potential ALDFG host areas and hot spots.