The TEFIBIO project financed !

The TEFIBIO project was awarded the Pole's label in October 2019 and supported by the Picardy Estuaries and Opal Sea Natural Marine Park in partnership with the FROM Nord. This project was selected for FEAMP 39 measure innovation title!  TEFIBIO aims to define, test and promote fishing nets that are dubbed "sustainable".  Indeed, these new prototypes of fishing nets will attempt to take into account an economic dimension (recyclable and bio-sourced product) and an environmental dimension (biodegradability in the marine environment).

The project concerns:
The definition and design of trammel-type fishing nets (or "sole nets"), using biodegradable, bio-sourced, recyclable materials and without the production of microplastics;
- Testing the net during experimental tides to assess its fishing capacity and technical constraints;
- The study of the recycling of waste from these biodegradable nets (industrial compost);
- The potential subsequent marketing of these nets.

This project is jointly financed by FEAMP and France Filière Pêche (France Fishing Sector).