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
Networking with ECOEMBES and LIBERA project
We had the pleasure to get in contact with Ecoembes to start discussing the collaboration between BLUENET and Ecoembes regarding the activities envisage on Fishing for Litter and ocean literacy. Despite their collaboration on [...]
Sampling of discarded fishing nets from Ondarroa port
Last February, our colleagues from GAIKER sampled and analysed of discarded fishing nets from Ondarroa port. Thanks to BIDEZAIN, the waste managers operating in ports of Bizkaia province, more than 150 kg of fishing [...]
Meetings with fishing associations, waste managers and Basque Government’s Fishing & Aquaculture director and port service
During February and March 2019, we hold several meetings with the fishing sectors, port service representatives and waste managers of the ports of Bermeo, Ondarroa, Getaria and Hondarribia to present BLUENET. The meetings had [...]
Meeting with Basque Government’s Port Service representatives
Our colleagues from AZTI visited the Basque Government’s Port Service headquarter in Donostia (Spain) to meet with their representatives. Project objectives and expected outcomes were presented and the administrative and technological requirements to equip [...]
BLUENET at EASME in Brussels!
BLUENET coordinators travelled to Brussels to join the common Kick-off meeting of all the 22 successful projects that were funded under the Blue Economy call 2017 of the European Commission. We were glad to [...]
1st Sampling and characterization of discarded aquaculture ropes
Let’s start! We have conducted our first sampling of discarded mussel long-line ropes. A total of 450 kg of discarded ropes were collected from Mendexa aquaculture facility located in the South East Bay of [...]