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

Informations projet

NETTAGPlus

N° de convention de subvention: 101112812

DOI

10.3030/101112812

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 21 Mai 2023

Date de début 1 Mai 2023

Date de fin 30 Avril 2026

Financé au titre de

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Coût total

€ 2 316 573,75

Contribution de l’UE

€ 2 177 673,75

Coordonné par

CENTRO INTERDISCIPLINAR DE INVESTIGACAO MARINHA E AMBIENTAL
Portugal

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Livrables

Other (1)

Education/ awareness material

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.

Documents, reports (1)

PDEC

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.

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

Didactic unit and video game

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

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.

Data Management Plan (1)

First version of the Data Management Plan

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

Thesis and dissertations (2)

AUV navigation simulation for detecting ghost nets through deep learning

Auteurs: Silva, C.M.M.
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Universidade do Porto

Acoustic Characterization and Detection of lost fishing gear

Auteurs: Oliveira, R.F.M.
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Universidade do Porto

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Potential of fishing nets for adsorption of inorganic (Cu and Pb) and organic (PAHs) pollutants

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: Marine Pollution Bulletin, Numéro 209, 2024, ISSN 0025-326X
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.117291

Scientific Reports

Auteurs: Perdigão, Rafaela; Tavares, Ana Sofia; Carvalho, Maria F.; Magalhães, Catarina; Ramos, Sandra; R. Almeida, C. Marisa; Mucha, Ana Paula
Publié dans: Scientific Reports, Numéro 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Éditeur: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-025-06033-6

Microbial communities associated with plastic fishing nets: diversity, potentially pathogenic and hydrocarbon degrading bacteria

Auteurs: Rafaela Perdigão, Ana Sofia Tavares, Maria F. Carvalho, Catarina Magalhães, Sandra Ramos, C. Marisa R. Almeida, Ana P. Mucha
Publié dans: Scientific Reports, Numéro 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Pedro Alves Guedes, Hugo Miguel Silva, Sen Wang
Publié dans: IEEE Access, Numéro 14, 2026, ISSN 2169-3536
Éditeur: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3677642

Challenges and recommendations for marine waste management in European fishing ports

Auteurs: Cristina Pita, Gillian B. Ainsworth, Marina Astudillo-Pascual, Priscila M. Silva, Angel Gutierrez, Sebastian Villasante
Publié dans: Frontiers in Marine Science, Numéro 13, 2026, ISSN 2296-7745
Éditeur: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FMARS.2026.1728784

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

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

Multibeam Multi-Frequency Characterization of Water Column Litter

Auteurs: Guedes, Pedro Alves; Silva, Hugo; Wang, Sen; Martins, Alfredo; Almeida, José Miguel; Silva, Eduardo
Publié dans: OCEANS 2024 - Singapore, 2024, ISSN 2473-2001
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS51537.2024.10682168

Acoustic Imaging Learning-Based Approaches for Marine Litter Detection and Classification

Auteurs: Pedro Alves Guedes, Hugo Miguel Silva, Sen Wang, Alfredo Martins, José Almeida, Eduardo Silva
Publié dans: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Numéro 12, 2024, ISSN 2077-1312
Éditeur: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/JMSE12111984

Water (Switzerland)

Auteurs: Ramos, Sandra; Espincho, Francisca; Rodrigues Magalhães, Sabrina; Pereira, Rúben; Silva, Diogo; Rivoira, Luca; Perdigão Mendes, Rafaela; Almeida, C. Marisa
Publié dans: Water, Numéro 17, 2025, ISSN 2073-4441
Éditeur: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/W17101439

Conference proceedings (2)

Low Energy, Real Time Passive Acoustic Detection of Dolphin Clicks and Whistles

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

Multibeam Multi-Frequency Characterization of Water Column Litter

Auteurs: Pedro Alves Guedes, Hugo Silva, Sen Wang, Alfredo Martins, José Miguel Almeida, Eduardo Silva
Publié dans: OCEANS 2024 - Singapore, 2024
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS51537.2024.10682168

Other (1)

NETTAG+ Deliverable D2.1 – Education/ awareness material

Auteurs: Sousa, Lisa; Almeida, Marisa; Ramos, Sandra
Éditeur: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14016805