François de Rugy, Minister of State, Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, Annick Girardin, Minister for the Overseas Territories, and Brune Poirson, Secretary to the Minister of State, Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, announced the launch a call for projects aimed at reducing the impact of waste, including abandoned or lost fishing nets and gear, on marine biodiversity in the French overseas territories.
Garbage, nets and fishing gear abandoned or lost at sea have a considerable impact on biodiversity and marine fauna, in particular creating entanglement phenomena. Today, we consider that a large majority of marine litter comes from land-based activities; plastic waste represents almost all of it.
Faced with these alarming findings, a call for projects is launched in order to propose concrete, effective, sustainable and replicable solutions to reduce the impact of this waste on the marine environment. This is in line with the objectives of the Biodiversity plan and the Overseas Blue Book which aim to build a pollution-free economy with a low impact on biodiversity, with a goal of zero plastic discharged into the sea by 2025.
The call for projects aims to carry out operations to locate areas where waste accumulates, recover them and prevent and recover solutions. The objective is also to conduct pilot waste recovery operations with fishing professionals.
Applicants have until November 8, 2019 to submit their application for assistance. The total envelope allocated for this call for projects is 300 euros, to be distributed among the selected projects.
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