DiscardLess helps provide the knowledge, tools and technologies as well as the involvement of the stakeholders to achieve the gradual elimination of discarding. These will be integrated into Discard Mitigation Strategies (DMS) proposing cost-effective solutions at all stages of the seafood supply chain.
The first focus is on preventing the unwanted catches from ever being caught.
The second focus is on making best use of the unavoidable unwanted catch.
DiscardLess evaluates the impacts of discarding on the marine environment, on the economy, and across the wider society. We evaluate these impacts before, during and after the implementation of the landing obligation, allowing comparison between intentions and outcomes.
Program and downloadable presentations from the conference for closing H2020 DiscardLess project
The Landing Obligation has been voted by the EU in the Common Fishery Policy Reform of 2013, and gradually implemented between 2015 and 2018.
Preliminary program for the upcoming Science - Policy conference for the closing of H2020 DiscardLess project is now available
In March 2018 the Discardless team, together with the Azores Regional Government organized a meeting. Subject was the implementation of the Landing Obligation (LO) in the region, and in particular…
A Science - Policy conference for the closing of H2020 DiscardLess project
DiscardLess has just published a new online module of its Discard Mitigation Strategies ToolBox (DMS Tool Box)!!
Theme session on “Full Retention Fisheries” was held during the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The manuscript of a full book on the EU landing Obligation has just sent to the publisher Springer Nature, and is expected to be published in January 2019.
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DiscardLess has attracted some attention in the media in the recent months! Here we bring links on a few articles external to the project.
Meeting was held on 25. November 2017.
Implementing the Landing Obligation in the Bay of Biscay.
DiscardLess partners presenting results at upcoming MARE conference, 5-7 July in Amsterdam
Our latest deliverable (7.2) “Year 2 of the Landing Obligation. Policy Brief No. 2” is now available on our website.
The Discardless DMS toolbox (Discard Mitigation Strategies ToolBox) aims to gather , synthetize and disseminate the knowledge produced by the DiscardLess project in a single repository freely accessible online. The…
110 stakeholders and Scientists met in Rome on 9-10 March 2017 around the topic ”What can Science do to help with the Landing Obligation?”
Our latest publication Selectivity in Trawl Fishing Gears has now been made available under Publications.
Our FAO 2017 conference programme is being finalized and we have already composed a draft, which has been made available here.
The DiscardLess meeting will meet in FAO Headquarters in Rome, on 7-10 March 2017.
In the week 6-10 March 2017, DiscardLess will organize an open meeting, marking the first half of the project.
The 8th IFOMC is comming up and DiscardLess will be joining.
Our latest deliverable (D7.1) “Year 1 of the Landing Obligation: key issues from the Baltic and Pelagic fisheries. Policy Brief No. 1.” is now available on our website.
The DiscardLess project is growing and we have several results which are now available on our website.