Details
- Mission objective
- Objective 2a - Prevent and eliminate pollution - litter and microplasticsObjective 3b - Blue economy - carbon-neutral and circular fisheries and aquaculture
- Lighthouse
- Baltic basin
- Sector
- Blue biotechnologyMarine living resources
- Topic(s)
- Marine litterFisheriesMicroplasticsWaste managementSeabed
- Type of action
- Evidence-based knowledge and data and/or access provision to knowledge and dataUpscaling, deployment and replication of solutions
- Type of knowledge output
- Report (research paper, policy report, white paper, guidelines, case studies, best practices, etc)
- Solution owner
- MARELITT Baltic
- Country
- Sweden
Description
This publication comprehensively gathers the knowledge generated by the MARELITT project, covering many aspects of the impact of marine litter in the form of derelict fishing gear (DFG) in the Baltic Sea, including mapping, retrieval, recycling and prevention of ghost nets. It provides a sound basis for strategic planning to identify stakeholders, address legal or regulatory frameworks and plan work processes. In such a way, it is aimed to serve as an action plan and provide guidance to organisations and governments towards actionable steps for fighting ghost nets, all over the world. The blueprint offers policymakers and harbour managers a strategic mitigation solution that can be used to both plan clean-up operations at sea and to create a waste management system capable of handling DFG. The blueprint presents so-called pillars that, for each activity, contain references to practical details from the relevant reports, step-by-step recommendations and the potential stakeholders to involve.
