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Fishing port of Port-en-Bessin
Fishing port
A fish market (1st auction in Normandy and 6th in France) Fleet of 61 vessels (mainly trawlers)
Port authority: Joint association of Cornouaille fishing ports and marinas
Administrator: Finistère Chamber of Commerce (CCI)
Port description:
Fishing port, marina & ship repair area Presence of a fish market
Flotilla of 98 vessels (mostly deep-sea)
Management of used fishing gear
Equipment
• Closed port waste collection centre: a 30m3 skip for EOLFG (mainly trawlers)
• Bins on the docks for fishermen to put all their waste in when they disembark
• Storage space for used trawls that are not dismantled
Management
• FILIPECHE project (2021-2022) recycling of trawls from Cornouaille ports, with a lorry sent to a trawl recycling facility in Denmark (Plastix)
• Local reuse initiatives: Recreational fishermen’s reuse of trawls in the storage area for their fishing activities
No existing recycling chain in France yet but large quantities of trawl nets.
Reuse
• When the bins on the docks are full, two employees hired by the CCI collect the bins and carry out an overall sorting according to the flows (wood, EOLFG, CIW, etc.).
• The EOLFG are placed in the skip and Guyot Environnement transports it to the landfill site
Funding: included in the REPP (fishing port equipment fee) Management costs: 160€/T (2023)
Quantity: 92.2T of trawls (2023)
Passive fishing for litter
Current pratices
No existing practices. This type of waste is returned but not characterised or monitored in terms of volume.
Port issues
REPECHONS LES OCEANS – The port has been contacted by the Ecoalf foundation’s Repêchons les océans programme to install bins in some ports in Cornouailles to collect passively fished waste. The operation has not yet produced conclusive results
Constraints and bests practices
Constraints
• Nets are not recycled due to low volume.
• Illegal dumping on the docks, particularly at weekends, still too frequent despite the introduction of fines.
• Rope cuttings left on the docks, even though they are occasionally cleaned with a blower.
Bests practices et objectives
• 2 to 3 times a year, a diver cleans the harbour water (recovery of fishing gear).
• Cleaning of port docks 2 to 3 times a year (collection of bits of plastic, polystyrene, etc. in the port)
• Objectives:
o To be part of a project with a medium/long-term approach to find sustainable, long-term value chain for used trawlnets.
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Fishing port of Marìn
General cargo (paper, wood, fruit, steel), bulk solids (grains, flours, and fertilizers), ship services (construction, repair, fuel, oils…), fishing activity (fresh and frozen), fish auction.
Fishing practice: 77 vessels and ships (mainly inshore, 12 trawlers operating in the Grand Sole fishing grounds, 4 coastal trawlers, and 8 operating in Portuguese waters)
Landings: Sardine, horse mackerel, Atlantic mackerel, Atlantic bonito, spider crab, velvet crab, shrimp, Norway lobster, hake, European hake (whiting), blue whiting, squid, monkfish, scorpionfish, red gurnard, sole, cuttlefish, octopus, conger eel, ray, others
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Fishing port of Roscoff
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.
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Fishing port of La Cotinière
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 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 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 Camaret
Fishing port and marina
No fish market but fish preparation area 7 fixed vessels (small-scale coastal fishing)
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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 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.