
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, 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.
• Outdoor waste collection centre:
o 1 skip of 20m3 : used trawls and pots
o Small crates: EOLFG fine nets collected
o 1m3 Big Bags: sorted fine nets
• A non-closed storage area dedicated to EOLFG
• An area dedicated to sorted nets
• Recycling of PA nets by Fil&Fab for tonnages of around 30T per year (3T/load)
• Before, they had a contract with Filet Recyclage, which sent the nets to Spain (10T/load)
• Local reuse initiatives: Collected by recreational fishermen for reuse in their fishing activities
• 20m3 skip sent to landfill by Guyot Environnement
• Big bags with nets sorted by one employee
(26h/week) sent to Fil&Fab by Guyot Environnement for recycling
Management cost: 225€/T (2023) & 140€/T (2022)
Quantity: 135T (2023) & 162T (2022)
• No recycling channels sufficiently developed, particularly for used pots and trawls.
• A large number of tyres are collected, representing a very expensive stream for processing (€500/T).
• Sorting & dismantling of EOLFGs carried out by one employee hired by the CCI at a dedicated treatment site with an elevated platform.
• Handling of potential net mending waste by an agent who operates a blower.
• Voluntary approach to EOLFG management.
• Cleaning of the port basin once a year by a professional diver.
• Objectives:
o Provide a recycling channel for used trawls and pots.
o Reduce the number of illegal waste dumping with the introduction of fines by the harbour master’s office.
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
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.
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
Fishing port, commercial port and marina. Presence of a fish market Flotilla of 55 fishing vessels :
mainly dredgers & caseyeur (pot vessels)
Fishing port, marina & ship repair area Presence of a fish market
Flotilla of 98 vessels (mostly deep-sea)
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)
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
Fishing port
A fish market (1st auction in Normandy and 6th in France) Fleet of 61 vessels (mainly trawlers)