TIRANA, December 28 /ATA/Today, there was carried out the seabed cleaning operation in Radhima, in accordance with the results required in the application form of the ADRINET project “Adriatic Network for Marine Ecosystems”, cooperation of IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro.
The Vlora Regional Council said that, “During the cleaning operation, there were monitored the nets, located and identified at several points”.
The location check, the degree of difficulty in the depths of the waters, as well as the collection of nets by fishermen and divers were also performed.
The overall objective of ADRINET, the “Adriatic Network for Marine Ecosystems”, IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro cooperation is to improve the joint coastal management system and to establish governance plans for the conservation of biodiversity and coastal ecosystems within the area. The program, whose territories share the same issues in terms of pollution, over-exploitation of fish stocks, illegal fishing, sophistication and ‘ghost fishing’.
The project includes investments in technology, design of fisheries and monitoring of marine pollution, and provides services, scientific support and skills to fishery professionals and consumers, in order to make fish consumption safer and in accordance with the rules and EU guidelines./ks/jp/p.s./
