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.
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BLUENET at the VII International Symposium on Marine Sciences (ISMS 2020) – workshop BAMAR 2020
The ISMS is a biannually meeting venue organized by six Spanish universities for researchers and experts to present and gain exposure about the results and findings of their projects in the field of Marine Sciences. This [...]
FISHING FOR LITTER – Basque Country
First characterisation of marine litter collected by the Basque fishing fleet With the ending of the COVID-19 derived state of alarm, our Basque fishermen are back to sea! And the work doesn´t stop in BLUENET! [...]
200 m of Polyamide and 400 m of polyolefins produced from recycled discarded nets!! with this, we have achieved another key milestone in BLUENET
Our partner ITSASKORDA has just finished processing the recycled monofilaments obtained in the project and the outcome has been better than expected. A total of 200 m polyamide and 400 m of polyolefin ropes have [...]
Manufacturing of recycled Nylon and Polyolefins monofilaments completed!
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BLUENET in the Basque Ecodesign meeting and in the CircularSeas presentation
BLUENET joined two interesting events the last week of February. The first one was the Basque Ecodesing Meeting, held on February 26 -28 in Bilbao. This event gathered several sectors and institutions to share their [...]