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Fishing port of Port-en-Bessin
Fishing port
A fish market (1st auction in Normandy and 6th in France) Fleet of 61 vessels (mainly trawlers)
Port authority: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM)
Administrator: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM)
Port description:
Fishing, seafood processing and sales.
Marine leisure cruises, sailing club, tourism.
Fishing practice: There are currently 5 pelagic trawlers, 36 demersal trawlers and 12 crabbers.
Landings: Prawn, Crab and white fish
Management of used fishing gear
Equipment
A teleporter is used by harbour staff to
remove waste from the pier to a new PRF.
Management
• They receive very little waste fishing gear, mostly legacy gear stored on pier (not in waste area)
• They have sent 2 skips since 2023 to Green Marine, Cork for recycling.
• FfL has historically gone into landfill
• Metal and buoys are separated from the FfL waste.
Reuse
• The harbour master is responsible for the management of waste.
• Fishing Vessels are given a supply of coloured plastic bags for waste by the harbour master as required. The ship generated wastes are stored on the pier, at the nominated sites. These containers may be accessed around the clock.
• Waste is collected by harbour staff and then segregated into skips in PRF area.(see fig.1) for various waste flows, IWC, metal, recycling, oils, general, WEEE. centre.
• EOL: At the time of visit there is a recycling programme with a company called Green Marine in Castletownbere. Unsure what nets are recycled.
• There is no EOL pre-treatment equipment or processes in the harbour.
• EOL Separation – some components such as metal/buoys are taken out.
• Cost recovery system: As per the Rates & Charges (S.I. No 214 of 2012), there is a monthly charge on all vessels.
Passive fishing for litter
Current pratices
It is a named Fishing for Litter port, however, they are not currently operating the programme.
Port issues
There is a lot of expensive retired nets sitting in an area on the port. These nets are not in use due to regulations. (see fig.2)
Constraints and bests practices
Constraints
• This is a well funded and staffed port in comparison to others visited.
• As a result, there a very few constraints, outside external constraints such as a suitable value chain for gear and assistance implementing FfL.
Bests practices et objectives
• Harbour Staff have full control over waste management.
• Large enclosed Waste Compound currently being built to segregate more waste.
• Bin system on port managed regularly by staff.
• Smartphone – Whatsapp group to communicate with fishermen
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Fishing port and marina
No fish market but fish preparation area 7 fixed vessels (small-scale coastal fishing)
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Fishing port of La Cotinière
Fishing port and marina
Presence of a fish market
Flotilla of 95 fishing vessels (trawlers, trollers, pot vessels gillnetter)
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Fishing port of Kilmore Quay
This is a multi-purpose port which accommodates approx.
20 trawlers, 5 scallop boats and 25 inshore vessels for crab, lobster & whelk. In addition, charter deep-sea angling vessels, tourboats to the Saltee Islands, and leisure crafts use the port.
There are also seafood processing plants next to the port.
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Fishing port of Le Guilvinec
Fishing port, marina & ship repair area Presence of a fish market
Flotilla of 98 vessels (mostly deep-sea)
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Fishing port of Dunmore East
A busy fishing harbour, home to a sailing club food shop/ smoke house, seafood shop, adventure facility, sailing club, coast guard, tour operators, boat yard, RNLI Lifeboat, net mending facility and a BIM ice plant.
Fishing practice: 12 regular boats under 24m,
Mostly bottom trawls, 1 x beamer trawl, 2 x pure seines Landings: White fish – Hake, Haddock, Whiting
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Fishing port of Union Hall
This is small fishing pier with 19 regular boats from 6m to 28m, including 1 x Demersal trawler (Prawns), 2 x Pelagic vessels and Inshore fishing boats.
There is also a RNLI station and a Rowing Club attached to the pier.
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Fishing Port of Bueu
Fishing activity and fish market.
Fishing practice: fleet of 144 vessels and ships (mostly small-scale fishing vessels)
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Fishing port of Castletownbere
A busy port that is home to several state organisations and fishing businesses. Including a seafood processing plant, an ice plant, fisherman’s co-op, and shipping agents. Cruise liners and island ferries also dock here.
30 x >20m fishing vessels are based at the port, the majority are whitefish trawlers.