
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
Fishing port
A fish market (1st auction in Normandy and 6th in France) Fleet of 61 vessels (mainly trawlers)
• 1 Big Bag for the recovery of used fishing net at the back of the ship repair area.
• Containers for the recovery of trawls and traps recently installed.
• FIRENOR project (2021-2023): collection and dismantling of trawls, nets, ropes and pots in order to draw up an analysis of the technical and economic feasibility of a waste recycling chain.
• Experiment conducted by Fil&Fab and WWF: trawl nets recycling (shredding tests in 2024).
• Recycling of nets: Fil&Fab recovers used nets from the port for material recovery.
• Waste streams placed in CIW are not sorted
• EOLFG are placed in Big Bags and sent to Fil&Fab by VEOLIA
• One staff member in charge of waste management
• • FIRENOR project (2021-2023): collection and dismantling of trawls, nets, ropes and pots in order to draw up an analysis of the technical and economic feasibility of a waste recycling chain.
• Experiment conducted by Fil&Fab and WWF: trawl nets recycling (shredding tests in 2024).
• Recycling of nets: Fil&Fab recovers used nets from the port for material recovery.Management costs: no data Quantity: 9T in 2022 (FIRENOR project)
• No dedicated or closed waste area at the moment.
• Difficult access, requiring crossing the technical and ship repair area to get to the waste reception facilities.
• Lack of indicators for monitoring EOLFG collection.
• City centre port: urban – port coactivity.
• Limited space for trawl net repairing leading to falls on the port docks, but construction work is in progress.
• Recycling of used nets collected by Fil&Fab
• Penalties for illegal waste dumping (port police and Ports du Calvados)
• Objectives:
o Carry out construction work to create a closed and dedicated area for the reception of waste, accessible only by port users and easily accessible for waste collection lorries.
o Sorting at source by operators should be implemented once the reception area renovation work is completed, to ensure better waste characterisation and reuse.
o Establish a local EMFAF project to provide collection points for EOLFG from six ports of the area to massify the waste and find suitable reuse channels.
o Port clean-up campaign.
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
Fishing port and marina
Presence of a fish market
Flotilla of 95 fishing vessels (trawlers, trollers, pot vessels gillnetter)
Fishing port and marina
Presence of a fish market, online sales only Flotilla of 30 vessels (gillnetter and trollers)
Fishing port, commercial port and marina Presence of a fish market
Flotilla of 40 fishing vessels (mainly coastal fishing) 1500 deep-sea trawlers landing fish every year.
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.
Fishing port, marina & ship repair area Presence of a fish market
Flotilla of 98 vessels (mostly deep-sea)
Fishing activity and fish market.
Fishing practice: fleet of 144 vessels and ships (mostly small-scale fishing vessels)
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.
Fishing port and marina
No fish market but fish preparation area 7 fixed vessels (small-scale coastal fishing)