Fishing port of Camaret

Date of visit: 28/08/2024
General information
Port authority: Municipality of Camaret-sur-Mer
Administrator: Municipality of Camaret-sur-Mer
Port description:

Fishing port and marina
No fish market but fish preparation area 7 fixed vessels (small-scale coastal fishing)

Management of used fishing gear

Equipment

• No facilities for collecting fishing nets in the port
• Skips for the careening area and for waste flows (wood, bulky items, waste sent for incineration, scrap metal…)

Management

• No recycling channels for the moment
• Collaboration with Fil&Fab to collect fishermen’s nets in 2020
o Installation of Big Bags financed by the Iroise Marine Park in the port, two lorries sent to Fil&Fab with around 15 Big Bags (between 2020 and 2023)
o Installation of posters presenting the reuse cycle for nets
• BUT it was not sustained because the transport was not handled by Fil&Fab, and the port lacked the resources and the time to manage it

Reuse

• Fishermen take their used fishing gear to the town’s waste collection centre. They put them in the bulky waste skip for landfill.
• The port manager is responsible for waste management.
Management costs: not applicable
Quantity: ≈ 15 Big Bags between 2020 and 2023

Passive fishing for litter

Current pratices

No practices in the port

Port issues

Fairly small port with priority given to the management of passively fished waste (careening area, waste collection area …)

Constraints and bests practices

Constraints

• Questions about responsibility for waste produced by fishermen
• Fishermen lack awareness of this issue and are already faced with numerous regulations
• Communal port with little budget allocated to waste management

Bests practices et objectives

• Member of the Iroise Marine Park’s partner port charter
• Port in the Association of Brittany Marinas
• Clean-up campaigns
• Objectives:
Obtain the Clean Harbours Label: work to fence off the careening area and to have a closed waste disposal area

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