Tuna fleet safe release technology rolled out
A joint effort by research organisation AZTI and Spanish tuna sector bodies ANABAC and OPAGAC has been behind the development of new technology making it safer and easier to release…
The SEARCULAR measures have the potential to extend life-cycle of fishing gear, prevent significant quantities of plastics entering the sea each year, and at the same time generate new material streams from old gears, facilitating the development of a circular economy for fishing gear
Old nets? New rope! A circular approach to tackling marine plastics
Combining research and industry expertise from across Europe, the EU-funded SEARCULAR project is trialling circular fishing gear solutions, which, if scaled up, could prevent thousands of tonnes of marine plastic…
Building an industry-science dialogue
Tuna industry representatives and scientists were able to compare notes and listen to each others’s concerns at meeting held by the Europêche Tuna Group in Montpellier. This isn’t the first…
