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Fishing port of Camaret
Fishing port and marina
No fish market but fish preparation area 7 fixed vessels (small-scale coastal fishing)
Port authority: Castletownbere Harbour
Administrator: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM
Port description:
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.
Management of used fishing gear
Equipment
A Bobcat and Teleporter are available on site.
Management
• Currently EOL goes to landfill, reusable/ recyclable components such as metal are stripped beforehand.
• EOL Spanish/ French nets go back to relevant country via trucks that deliver services to these fishermen.
• Waste that currently has a value stream: metal, wood palette, oil, rubber goes to the tyre centre, ICW, batteries, carboard, wire rope, glass, small oil drums (25 litre)
Reuse
• The Harbour Master is contacted by Merchant vessels prior to arrival in port
• Waste is collected from enclosed waste skips provided on the piers and is collected daily or twice daily depending on vessel traffic in the harbour.
• Currently EOL goes to landfill, reusable/ recyclable components such as metal are stripped beforehand.
• Category 1 Waste Skips are provided for vessels arriving from international ports.
• Fees are per Statutory Instrument 214 of 2012
Passive fishing for litter
Currents practices
Port issues
Constraints and bests practices
Constraints
• The port is named as a Fishing for Litter port, however, there is currently very little FfL activity is taking place.
• However, studies have been carried out in the past by BIM/CTC monitoring/ categorising waste in FfL skips.
• In 2023, 30m3 of compacted PFW was collected
Bests practices et objectives
• In the past year, BIM/CTC have ben working with the port to implement reporting using waste characterisation codes.
• Communication on legislation, Bye Laws and relevant activity in the harbour are communicated via harbour notices, posted locally and via emails.
• There is a net storage/ maintenance area for nets in use.
Objectives:
The Harbour management actively sought means of recycling nets, however, to date, none is provided for within the state. The disposal of used gear is the responsibility of the net owner, the harbour no longer accepts end of life fishing gear.
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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
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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 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 Audierne
Fishing port and marina
Presence of a fish market, online sales only Flotilla of 30 vessels (gillnetter and trollers)
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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 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 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.