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Fish business
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Malin and Jane explore the impact of lost, discarded or abandoned fishing gear and what action is taken from a global to local scale to stop it with Inger Melander, Expert Fisheries and Market at WWF. The talk is framed around these questions:
Q1: How is lost or abandoned fishing gear a problem? (01:16)
Q2: Do you know of any initiatives working to reduce the amount of lost or abandoned fishing gear globally? (03:04)
Q3: What are some of the most common reasons to lose, discard or abandon fishing gear? (04:40)
Q4: How could it be prevented? (06:30)
Q5: How could the EPR (extended producer responsibility) be applied in this context, reduce marine plastic pollution? 07:20)
Q6: What are the most common ways of operating fish farms in the Baltic Region? (08:36)
Q7: What kind of waste and litter could you expect from an aquaculture facility in the Baltic Sea? (10:13)
LINKS AND SOURCES
Frameworks
EPR fishing gear (position paper IUCN)
Best-practice framework for the management of aquaculture gear
Reports
Stopping Ghost Gear | Projects | WWF (worldwildlife.org)
New Report from WWF Says Addressing Abandoned Fishing Gear Must be Central in the Fight Against Plastic Pollution | Press Releases | WWF (worldwildlife.org)
Stop Ghost Gear: The Most Deadly Form of Marine Plastic Debris | Publications | WWF (worldwildlife.org)
Stoppa plastföroreningarna! - Världsnaturfonden WWF
Removal of derelict fishing gear | WWF (panda.org)
EU SUP Directive -- EU’s Directive on single-use plastics
Single-use plastics (europa.eu)
EUR-Lex - 32019L0904 - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)
EU Council Regulation No.1224/2009 (article 48): EUR-Lex - 32009R1224 - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)
International Agreements and Conventions
United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS): UNCLOS - Table of Contents
Marpol: MARPOL (imo.org)
London Convention and Protocol: Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (imo.org)
Non-binding Guidelines and Resolutions
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), The Code for responsible Fisheries (CCRF 1995): FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture - Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
International Guidelines on Bycatch Management and Reduction of Discards (2011)
International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IPOA-IUU; 2001)
FAO Voluntary Guidelines on the Marking of Fishing Gear (VGMFG; 2019)
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
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