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

NETTAG+旨在提供三种合适的创新、智能和可持续的解决方案，以解决渔具对海洋生物和栖息地的负面影响，这与“渔具对环境的影响”的第二期呼吁一致。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办法。我们会防止渔业活动产生海洋垃圾，避免渔具的流失，并透过清除现有的残留污染物，减轻有害影响。这三种解决方案将共同有助于减少ALDFG和海洋污染，即：减少引入源自ALDFG的危险化学品和微塑料；减少易受滋扰或濒临绝种的鱼类在低纬度海面上的幽灵捕鱼、副渔获物及缠结；改进测绘、跟踪和恢复技术以检索ALDFG。NETTAG+旨在升级和升级之前的NETTAG项目中开始的综合预防方法，并在地中海地区复制。这三种解决方案将在项目结束时发展成熟（TRL 7-8），并将在大西洋和地中海国家的实际条件下进行测试、验证和演示，即葡萄牙（PT）、英国（UK）、西班牙（SP）、意大利（IT）、克罗地亚（HR）和马耳他（MT）。NETTAG+的目标是改变渔业的模式，立志改变社会对渔民作为海洋守护者和清洁工角色的看法。NETTAG+将使该部门能够采取积极行动解决海洋污染问题，促进其作为解决海洋污染的关键行动者的作用，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.