Preventing, avoiding and mitigating environmental impacts of fishing gears and associated marine litter

NETTAG+旨在提供三种适当的创新、智能和可持续的解决方案组合，以应对渔具对海洋生物和栖息地的负面影响，以符合呼吁的第二期“渔具的环境影响”。NETTAG+将以渔业、科学家和非政府组织之间的协同活动为基础，制定预防、避免和减轻渔具有害影响的三种解决方案。我们将防止来自渔业活动的海洋垃圾，避免渔具损失，并通过拆除现有的ALDFG来减轻有害影响。这三个解决方案将共同有助于减少ALDFG和海洋污染，即：减少来自ALDFG的危险化学品和微塑料的引入；减少在ALDFG上的幽灵捕捞、兼捕和敏感或濒危物种的缠绕；以及改进测绘、跟踪和回收技术，以找回ALDFG。NETTAG+旨在升级和升级在先前NetTag项目中开始的综合预防方法，并将其复制到地中海地区。这三个解决方案将在项目结束时发展到成熟(TRL 7-8)，并将在大西洋和地中海国家，即葡萄牙(PT)、联合王国(UK)、西班牙(SP)、意大利(IT)、克罗地亚(HR)和马耳他(MT)的实际条件下进行测试、验证和演示。NETTAG+的目标是改变渔业的模式，渴望改变社会对渔民作为海洋守护者和清洁者的角色的看法。NETTAG+将使该部门能够采取积极行动应对海洋污染，促进他们作为解决海洋污染的关键参与者的角色，并将为渔业提供三种智能和环保的解决方案，以减少ALDFG和防止渔具对环境的影响。

NETTAG+ aims to provide a portfolio of three suitable innovative smart and sustainable solutions to address the negative impacts of fishing gears on marine life and habitats, in line with the second issue of the call “Environmental impacts of fishing gears”. NETTAG + will be based on synergistic activities between the fisheries industry, scientists and NGOs to develop three solutions to PREVENT, AVOID and MITIGATE the harmful impacts of fishing gears. We will PREVENT marine litter derived from fisheries activities, AVOID loss of fishing gears, and MITIGATE harmful impact by removing existing ALDFG. These three solutions will jointly contribute to reduce ALDFG and marine pollution, namely by: reducing the introduction of hazardous chemicals and microplastics originated from ALDFG; reducing ghost fishing, bycatch and entanglements of sensitive or endangered species on ALDFG; and improving mapping, tracking and recovery technologies to retrieve ALDFG. NETTAG+ aims to upgrade and upscale the integrative preventive approach started in the previous NetTag project, and replicate it in Mediterranean regions. The three solutions will be developed to maturity (TRL 7-8) by the end of the project, and will be tested, validated and demonstrated in real conditions in Atlantic and Mediterranean countries, namely Portugal (PT), United Kingdom (UK), Spain (SP), Italy (IT), Croatia (HR) and Malta (MT). NETTAG+ ambition is to change the paradigm of the fisheries industry, aspiring to transform the societal perspectives about the role of fishers as Guardians and Cleaners of the Ocean. NETTAG+ will empower the sector to take active actions to address marine pollution, promoting their role as key-actors to tackle marine pollution, and will will provide the fisheries industry with three smart and environmentally-friendly solutions to reduce ALDFG and prevent the environmental impacts of fishing gears.