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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: Gijón
Administrator: Ports of the State
Port description:
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
Management of used fishing gear
Equipment
- Open areas for the storage of big bags containing WIF.
- Shipboard crane and forklifts for unloading and transport within the port.
Management
- The removal of nets, other than gill nets, is handled by the Chicolino company.
- No management is carried out for EOLFG.
- No network recovery facilities available.
- Recycling has been attempted, but is not viable due to low volumes, long distances to recovery facilities, and the excessively high cleaning requirements of the nets.
- No material reuse to date.
Reuse
- WIF are collected in big bags (1m3) on board the vessels.
- Upon arrival at the port, unloading is performed by the fishermen using the vessel’s cranes. Small vessels carry it out manually.
- With the help of a forklift, the fishermen transport the big bags containing WIF waste and deposit them in makeshift open areas near the fish market.
- Waste sorting is not carried out at the port; it is the responsibility of the authorized manager to separate the different materials, mainly distinguishing between mixed plastics – which include trawl nets, bags, and plastic sheets – and PET.
- The company Reciclados Plásticos A Cañiza is responsible for removing the waste to its facilities, where tonnage control is conducted.
- Amount of WIF: 4.64t (2019), 10.9t (2020), 7.7t (2021), 5.78t (2022) and 4.76t (2023)
- Total WIF over 5 years: approximately 33 tons.
Passive fishing for litter
Currents practices
Port issues
Constraints and bests practices
Constraints
- The mixing of waste, resulting from the coexistence of fishermen, fish buyers, and processing companies in fishing areas, complicates effective waste management.
- Recycling of the nets is unfeasible due to the considerable distances to processing facilities and the excessively stringent cleaning requirements.
- Quantification, characterisation and valorisation of specific items/fractions when removal is linked to projects.
- Inadequate use of containers by other port users.
Bests practices et objectives
- Fishing for Litter is only carried out under the Mares Circulares project in collaboration with Vertidos Cero.
- Established history of proactive engagement in projects and initiatives associated with the project.
- Vertidos Cero develops awareness-raising actions and provides onboard collection systems.
- Proper information transmission to fishermen regarding the importance of FfL actions by project members.
Objectives:
- Facilitate data collection and enhance the traceability of waste delivery points.
- Interest in having a GIS to facilitate the monitoring, localization, and planning of the collection and valorization of fishing nets, in order to improve the efficiency and sustainability of the process.
- Establish a management system for fishing gear and promote extended producer responsibility to address the shortage of recyclers in the area.
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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 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, commercial port and marina. Presence of a fish market Flotilla of 55 fishing vessels :
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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, marina & ship repair area Presence of a fish market
Flotilla of 98 vessels (mostly deep-sea)
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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 Howth
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