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Fishing port of Audierne
Fishing port and marina
Presence of a fish market, online sales only Flotilla of 30 vessels (gillnetter and trollers)
Port authority: -
Administrator: Ports of Galicia
Port description:
Fishing activity and fish market.
Fishing practice: fleet of 237 vessels and ships (mostly small-scale fishing vessels)
Management of used fishing gear
Equipment
- Presence of one cage installed by Ports of Galicia in selected ports for the exclusive accumulation of gillnets (polyamide).
- No closed area is exclusively dedicated to nets.
Management
- The boats are equipped with big bags (1m3).
- The collection of WIF is coordinated between the fishermen’s cooperative and the shipowners’ association.
- The big bags are unloaded using a crane and transported through the port with the assistance of a pallet jack.
- The fishermen’s cooperative stores the big bags containing WIF within its facilities, while the shipowners’ association unloads them in a designated outdoor area for which they had to obtain permission from the Ribeira fish market.
- No compactor is available at the port.
- Characterisation is carried out at the port once a month by members of the Mares Circulares initiative.
- Collection is carried out periodically every 15 days, except on some occasions when it is done on demand.
- The company Reciclados Plásticos A Cañiza is responsible for removing the waste to its facilities, where tonnage control is conducted.
- Amount of waste incidentally fishing: 2.1t (2023) and 1.5t (2022).
Reuse
- The unloading of nets at the port is carried out manually by the fishermen.
- Polyamide nets are deposited in designated cages, as they are the only type currently considered to have commercial value.
- A dedicated collection system for small fragments of nets is not in place.
- The retrieval of nets, excluding gill nets, is managed by the company Chicolino.
- An effective net management system has yet to be established in the ports under the administration of Ports of Galicia.
- No data is available regarding the volume of disused nets.
- There is no available data concerning the volume of nets that are no longer in use.
Passive fishing for litter
Constraints and bests practices
Constraints
- The first waste reception plan has not yet been approved.
- Only two staff members are responsible for carrying out waste reception and handling operations.
- Budget limitations are a significant constraint.
- The main challenge is engaging fishermen and ensuring they place passive waste in the designated area.
Bests practices et objectives
- The MARES CIRCULARES initiative is currently in place in collaboration with Vertidos Cero.
- The shipowners’ association, the fishermen’s cooperative, and the Vertidos Cero are responsible for communication within the port.
- Training is planned to be provided to companies on the collection of both their own waste and WIF.
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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 Granville
Fishing port, commercial port and marina. Presence of a fish market Flotilla of 55 fishing vessels :
mainly dredgers & caseyeur (pot vessels)
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Fishing port of Marìn
General cargo (paper, wood, fruit, steel), bulk solids (grains, flours, and fertilizers), ship services (construction, repair, fuel, oils…), fishing activity (fresh and frozen), fish auction.
Fishing practice: 77 vessels and ships (mainly inshore, 12 trawlers operating in the Grand Sole fishing grounds, 4 coastal trawlers, and 8 operating in Portuguese waters)
Landings: Sardine, horse mackerel, Atlantic mackerel, Atlantic bonito, spider crab, velvet crab, shrimp, Norway lobster, hake, European hake (whiting), blue whiting, squid, monkfish, scorpionfish, red gurnard, sole, cuttlefish, octopus, conger eel, ray, others
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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.
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Fishing port of Gijón
Commercial, nautical-sport, tourism, fishing, and shipyard activities, fish market.
Fishing practice: for WIF, three trawlers from the Mares Circulares project (with lengths ranging from 28 to 36 meters) are collaborating
Landings: Atlantic mackerel, European anchovy, and Atlantic bonito
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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 Vigo
General cargo, bulk solids, ship service, fishing activity (fresh and frozen), fish market.
Fishing practice: fleet of 359 vessels and ships (mostly artisanal vessels)
Landings: Black monkfish, White monkfish, Blue shark, Swordfish, Northern megrim, Atlantic pomfret, European hake, Korean flounder, Common squid, Horse mackerel…
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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.