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

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Deliverables

Education/ awareness material (opens in new window)

Educational materials for fishers awareness activities (e.g.posters, flyers, and roll-ups) focusing on the problematic of marine litter including: role of the fishing industry as polluter; economic impacts on fisheries; how fishers can minimise waste and reduce harmful environmental impacts (e.g. bycatch, ghost fishing); potential use of alternative/eco-friendly materials; strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, energy and resource consumption. The educational materials produced towards professional fishers using simple, non-scientific language and will be prepared in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Croatian.

PDEC (opens in new window)

Plan for Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication (PDEC) Activities, including Project brand and communication products. PDEC developed to reach and maximise the expected project impacts, and yearly updated and implemented for the full duration of the project in collaboration with all project partners. The PDEC will support the strategic and effective communication, dissemination, and exploitation of NETTAG+s results and findings to all stakeholders including the media and general public, while managing IP protection.

Didactic unit and video game (opens in new window)

Develop of an educational program for schoolchildren (1013-year-old) through the use of a video game expressly developed to address and raise awareness about the problem of marine litter, to increase ocean literacy and encourage conservation-attitudes towards ocean protection.

Enhanced transponders (opens in new window)

Pre-production prototype transponders with core location functions (TRL 8). The tag technology fully engineer to reach TRL 8 ready for commercial exploitation. Design and test pre-production tags, with the emphasis on minimum manufacturing cost, maximum physical robustness for harsh treatment by fishers and maximising battery life. Robust but low-cost tag construction with transducer and electronics encased in a hard-plastic shell will be developed and optimised for acoustic coupling performance. Electronic circuits reviewed to further reduce power consumption using the latest ultra-low power ARM microprocessors and/or programmable logic devices, along with further cost engineering/component reduction to reduce the bill of materials.

First version of the Data Management Plan (opens in new window)

Guidelines for data management (including data protection aspects) within the project, identification and description how the project will manage data (re-used, collected and generated by the project), in support of the Ocean and water knowledge system, in particular by contributing to monitoring, modelling and knowledge creation and data. DMP includes an overview of data types, format and volume and how they will be handled, organised and shared to conform to FAIR principles.

Publications

AUV navigation simulation for detecting ghost nets through deep learning

Author(s): Silva, C.M.M.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Universidade do Porto

Acoustic Characterization and Detection of lost fishing gear

Author(s): Oliveira, R.F.M.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Universidade do Porto

Potential of fishing nets for adsorption of inorganic (Cu and Pb) and organic (PAHs) pollutants (opens in new window)

Author(s): C. Marisa R. Almeida, Rafaela Perdigão, Bárbara Ribeiro Correia, Henry Van Der Gracht, Sofia Dias, Catarina Magalhães, Maria F. Carvalho, Ana P. Mucha, Francisca Espincho, Sandra Ramos
Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin, Issue 209, 2024, ISSN 0025-326X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.117291

Scientific Reports (opens in new window)

Author(s): Perdigão, Rafaela; Tavares, Ana Sofia; Carvalho, Maria F.; Magalhães, Catarina; Ramos, Sandra; R. Almeida, C. Marisa; Mucha, Ana Paula
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-025-06033-6

Microbial communities associated with plastic fishing nets: diversity, potentially pathogenic and hydrocarbon degrading bacteria (opens in new window)

Author(s): Rafaela Perdigão, Ana Sofia Tavares, Maria F. Carvalho, Catarina Magalhães, Sandra Ramos, C. Marisa R. Almeida, Ana P. Mucha
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-025-06033-6

Learning-Based Online Tracking Algorithms for Marine Litter in Multibeam Water Column Images (opens in new window)

Author(s): Pedro Alves Guedes, Hugo Miguel Silva, Sen Wang
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 14, 2026, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3677642

Challenges and recommendations for marine waste management in European fishing ports (opens in new window)

Author(s): Cristina Pita, Gillian B. Ainsworth, Marina Astudillo-Pascual, Priscila M. Silva, Angel Gutierrez, Sebastian Villasante
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 13, 2026, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FMARS.2026.1728784

Descriptor: <i>Forward-Looking Multibeam - Marine Litter Detection and Tracking Dataset (FLM-MLDT)</i> (opens in new window)

Author(s): Pedro Alves Guedes, Maksym Lysak, Guilherme Amaral, Pedro Martins, Carlos Almeida, Hugo Miguel Silva, Alfredo Martins, Sen Wang, José Miguel Almeida
Published in: IEEE Data Descriptions, 2026, ISSN 2995-4274
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/IEEEDATA.2026.3683037

Multibeam Multi-Frequency Characterization of Water Column Litter (opens in new window)

Author(s): Guedes, Pedro Alves; Silva, Hugo; Wang, Sen; Martins, Alfredo; Almeida, José Miguel; Silva, Eduardo
Published in: OCEANS 2024 - Singapore, 2024, ISSN 2473-2001
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS51537.2024.10682168

Acoustic Imaging Learning-Based Approaches for Marine Litter Detection and Classification (opens in new window)

Author(s): Pedro Alves Guedes, Hugo Miguel Silva, Sen Wang, Alfredo Martins, José Almeida, Eduardo Silva
Published in: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2077-1312
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/JMSE12111984

Water (Switzerland) (opens in new window)

Author(s): Ramos, Sandra; Espincho, Francisca; Rodrigues Magalhães, Sabrina; Pereira, Rúben; Silva, Diogo; Rivoira, Luca; Perdigão Mendes, Rafaela; Almeida, C. Marisa
Published in: Water, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/W17101439

Low Energy, Real Time Passive Acoustic Detection of Dolphin Clicks and Whistles (opens in new window)

Author(s): Jeff Neasham, Richard Burnett, Gavin Lowes, Ben Sherlock, Per Berggren, Sarah Dickson
Published in: 2025 7th Experiment@ International Conference (exp.at'25), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EXP.AT2565440.2025.11348486

Multibeam Multi-Frequency Characterization of Water Column Litter (opens in new window)

Author(s): Pedro Alves Guedes, Hugo Silva, Sen Wang, Alfredo Martins, José Miguel Almeida, Eduardo Silva
Published in: OCEANS 2024 - Singapore, 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS51537.2024.10682168

NETTAG+ Deliverable D2.1 – Education/ awareness material (opens in new window)

Author(s): Sousa, Lisa; Almeida, Marisa; Ramos, Sandra
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14016805

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