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The overall objective of the BAJUREC V project, like BAJUREC III and BAJUREC IV, is to improve the management of waste generated by the fishing sector and reduce the amount of waste in coastal areas and the sea, contributing to a better conservation of marine biological resources and the protection of the maritime areas of the Natura 2000 Network.

Specific objectives:

• Obtain information on the situation of existing waste infrastructures and their use in Spanish fishing ports.
• To make available to the authorities and the interested public the current situation of waste infrastructures and the use made of them in Spanish fishing ports, so that appropriate decisions can be taken to allow adequate waste treatment, avoiding dumping at sea.
• To obtain, through a statistical treatment, a global picture of the situation of the existing waste and discard infrastructures in the use made of them in all the Spanish fishing ports visited in BAJUREC III, IV and V.
• To analyze the causes of the failures detected in the fishing ports studied in BAJUREC III, IV and V in order to be able to transfer them to those responsible for waste management in the ports together with recommendations for improvement.
• Complete the database and GIS map sheets, created in the BAJUREC III project, on the Clean Landscape website, with the information obtained in the fishing ports of the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and Ceuta, and with the updating of some data collected throughout the BAJUREC III and BAJUREC IV projects, in terms of management plans, plans of action, etc. …..
• Raise awareness among fishermen for proper management of the waste they generate.
• Loyalty and involvement of all the fishing ports studied in any type of project that requires their collaboration in the fight against marine litter. A recognition that many ports will be grateful for, as they have been working for years to prevent waste from ending up in the sea and often feel forgotten.

1. Contact with port authorities.
2. Data collection in 45 fishing ports (Balearic Islands, Canary Islands and Ceuta).
3. Control of data obtained.
4. Incorporation of information to database and MAP GIS.
5. Statistical study of data obtained in the BAJUREC V campaign (Balearic Islands, Canary Islands and Ceuta).
6. Summary statistical study of the data obtained throughout Spain in the BAJUREC III, BAJUREC IV and BAJUREC V campaigns, analyzing state and regional ports separately and highlighting ports located in the Natura 2000 Network.
7. Report with the analysis of the failures detected in fishing port management and recommendations to improve the situation.
8. Awareness Campaign (Design and mailing 312 Roll-up).
9. Loyalty and recognition to all ports visited in BAJUREC (Design and shipment of 312 plaques).
10. Dissemination of the project (plaque award ceremony, press releases, final day, filming and video editing).
11. Project management and relationship with all stakeholders.

The final results of the BAJUREC project, developed with the support of the Biodiversity Foundation, of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, through the Pleamar Programme, co-financed by the EMFF have been the following:

1. Comprehensive information has been obtained on the state of the infrastructures for the deposit of waste, as well as the use made of them in all Spanish fishing ports.
2. Each port or group of ports (with the same state or regional management) has been analysed to detect failures and propose solutions. This has involved the visit of 325 fishing ports, located along the peninsular and island coast, as well as the monitoring of all the infrastructures for the deposit of waste generated in:

• vessels and in the port located outside the Recycling Centre (number of containers, suitable containers, condition of the container – correct labelling, graffiti or stickers, damage, etc.)
• the facilities of the Clean Point (waste generated, waste managed, number of containers by type of waste, kg of waste leaving the Clean Point, destination of the flows, managers, etc.).

3. Statistical studies have been carried out and subsequently sent to the competent authorities. In this way, it is expected that through the work carried out, an optimal treatment of waste can be implemented so that it does not end up dumped at sea.

4. A GIS map has been developed from the information obtained. Each port is georeferenced, so you can obtain port-by-port information, in file format, of all the data collected. This map is available both to the competent authorities and to all interested public on the website of the Clean Landscape Association.