Acronym BLUENET
Category
Aquaculture
Title Creating new life for discarded fishing and aquaculture gears to prevent marine litter generation Programme Nat. Programme (supported by ESIF)
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National-European Coordinator Oihane C. Basurko Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2019 End year 2020 Funding (€) € 550,691 Website https://maritime-spatial-planning.ec.europa.eu/projects/creating-new-life-discarded-fishing-and-aquaculture-gears-prevent-marine-litter Summary "BLUENET focused on the demonstration of a series of actions addressed to prevent and reduce marine litter from fishing/aquaculture and, in turn, establish a harmonized plan for the collection and management of marine litter to make the prevention and reduction of ALDFG attractive to fishers and aquaculture operators; thus, boosting the local circular economy through recycling the gears for the benefits of the fishing and aquaculture sectors.
The project is therefore mainly focused on the following priority areas:
- Reduction and prevention of marine litter from fishing and aquaculture sectors.
- The removal and recycling of fishing and aquaculture gears made of Polyethylene (PE), Polyamide (PA) and Polypropylene (PP) to promote the local circular economy from/for these sectors.
The specific objectives are:
- Set up a self –sustaining program for recycling ALDFG from fisheries and aquaculture.
- Provide alternative and sustainable designs for fishing and aquaculture gears, promoting the design for sustainability of gears.
- Test the suitability of integrating recycled raw materials in net- and rope-manufacturing, to provide a feedback to the EU Strategy on Plastics, regarding the plastic used in fishing and aquaculture.
- Estimate marine litter generated by fisheries and offshore aquaculture.
- Promote networking with ongoing and past projects on marine litter from fishing and aquaculture for, altogether, providing a feedback to the implementation of the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), Common Fishery Policy (CFP), Aquaculture development strategies, the Directive on Port Reception Facilities, and Strategy on Plastics in a Circular Economy.
- Increase the replicability and transfer opportunities of the positive outcomes of the project for other geographical locations and/or applications, by providing guidelines for the fishing and aquaculture sector on the prevention of marine litter generation, and the retrieval and recycling of gears.
- Disseminate the outcomes of the project to the general public, stakeholders, specialist audience, skilled professionals and end-users of the proposed solutions, and knowledge transfer to stakeholders.
The relevance of the project and the added value is that the actions are planned as to establish management plan envisaged that locally generated ALDFG, are tackled by local companies to revert as benefit to the local community."
Keywords
Technology;
Guidelines;
Waste valorization;
Environmental impact;
Wastes;
Gear technology;
Engineering;
Fishing technology;
Marine Region
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Bay of Biscay Southern (27.VIIIc)
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