BLUENET, creating new life for abandoned, lost or discarded fishing and aquaculture gears to prevent marine litter generation.
According to experts, 4.6-12.7 million tonnes of marine litter are added every year to our seas and oceans (Jambeck et al, 2015).
The Strand 2 “Marine Litter” of Sustainable Blue Economy call (European Commission) is looking for actions that reduce, monitor and quantify, remove and recycle marine litter produced by sea-based sources, such as fishing and aquaculture, shipping or offshore installations.
BLUENET aims at reducing, by the end of 2020, the marine litter from sea-based sources and from the SE Bay of Biscay by 20-40 %.
The sources to be investigated are aquaculture and fisheries, and the amount and harmfulness of marine litter produced by their Abandoned, Lost or Discarded Fishing Gears (ALDFG).
This will be achieve by
PROMOTING
PROMOTING
the proactivity of the sectors in combating marine litter, through ocean literacy.
PREVENTING
PREVENTING
The intentional and unintentional disposal of nets and ropes at the sea.
FACILITATING
FACILITATING
the recovery of nets and ropes to fishers and aquaculture operators.
UPCYCLING
UPCYCLING
by recycling them as raw materials for manufacturing new fishing and acualculture gears.
Our last news
The first BLUENET workshop on circular economy in aquaculture was held!
On December 10 (2019), we celebrated our first BLUENET workshop on “Circular economy in aquaculture: collecting and reusing abandoned or discarded materials to give them a second life”. The workshop was hosted by AZTI and [...]
¡Únete al próximo taller de BLUENET sobre economía circular y acuicultura!
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BLUENET at the 6th Atlantic Stakeholder Platform Conference
The BLUENET has participated in the 6th Atlantic Stakeholder Platform Conference international conference (https://atlanticstrategy.eu/en/content/6th-atlantic-stakeholder-platform-conference) held in Porto (Portugal) on the 12-13th of November 2019, and organised by ForumOceano and CETMAR within the framework of the Business2Sea (B2Sea). We were delighted to be one of the invited speakers in the Workshop “How [...]
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BLUENET at “PLASTICS IN OUR OCEAN: a micro or macro challenge?” workshop
On the 1st of October 2019 our colleagues from AZTI attended to the presentation of the representative of the DG Mare Mr. Maris Stulgis in the framework of the workshop “PLASTICS IN OUR OCEAN: a micro or macro challenge?”. The event held in Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain) and [...]
BLUENET at the international textile machinery exhibition ITMA
BLUENET team joined the international textile machinery exhibition ITMA held on the 20th-26th of June 2019 in Barcelona (Spain). ITMA has become a leading trade fair of the textile industry over the past years and more than 700 exhibitors and 120000 [...]