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General Objective:

Conserve biodiversity and marine ecosystems from sustainability.

Specific objectives:

1. To promote the knowledge, management and conservation of marine biological resources, especially in the Natura 2000 Network, marine protected areas in accordance with the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and other special spaces and habitats.
2. Collect lost fishing gear and other marine debris.
3. Encourage the participation of fishermen in the protection and recovery of biodiversity.
4. To improve the state of conservation and the capacity for renewal of natural resources, biodiversity, geodiversity and the landscape, facilitating the fulfilment of environmental objectives established at international, national and regional level.
5. Integrate equality and sustainability into biodiversity conservation.

The project has achieved its objectives with the development of the proposed activities and thanks to the collaboration of more than 26 entities of different types and nature, among which we highlight: Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Intecmar, Cetmar, University of Vigo, University of Santiago, University of A Coruña, Spanish Association of Marine Litter, WWF, Fishermen’s Guild of Aguiño, Galician Diving Federation, Bueu Sea Kayak Club, Portos de Galicia, GALP, Xefatura Comarcal de Ribeira da Consellería do Mar, Asnauga, Espeleo Club Aradelas, PNMTIAG and COBGA.

We highlight the following results:

• Carrying out clean-up tasks on five beaches
• The removal of 462.5 kg of waste, mostly plastic
• The training, participation and awareness of 202 volunteers
• The holding of ten working meetings, with 88 participants
• The development of eleven training sessions, with 437 participants
• The preparation of the following documents: Good practices to prevent the arrival of garbage at sea, Protocol for the collection of garbage and Protocol for the characterization of collected garbage

From a multidisciplinary meeting, a working group was created with representatives of the fishing sector, guilds, managers of the fishing territory and the Coastal Action Group. Knowledge management actions have been carried out from the creation of a working group made up of technicians, scientists and park conservators to define the current state of fishing gear in relation to marine litter, based on their knowledge of the territory and to carry out a SWOT analysis.

On October 20, FEGAS and the Bueu Sea Kayak Club carried out the cleaning of the seabed with the aim of protecting and recovering the biodiversity of marine ecosystems through protocols for the collection and characterization of garbage. The group that developed this activity was made up of fishermen from the port of Aguiño, divers, athletes and collaborators of the project. In total, 29 people attended and 192.7 kg of waste collected were removed including nets, ropes, ropes, pots, tires, containers and plastics, as well as footwear, wood, glass fragments and ceramics or metals.

Three other beach clean-ups were carried out, with a total of 173 volunteers who went to the beaches of Almacén, Bois, Zafra and Lagos and 268.4 kg of rubbish were collected, in addition to collaborating with Clean Atlantic in the collection of punt sticks.