NetTag joined a session of "Conversas com ciência" in Serralves foundation talk about ghost nets, marine litter, plastics and fisheries.

Hey, today it's world ocean day! We had such a great fishing for litter event planned for today - the Clean Ocean Day, where fishers from Porugal and Spain, would g...

NetTag is in this month's issue of the Portuguese magazine "Revista de Marinha", with the theme of fishing and related activities.
The goals , partners and achievem...

NetTag continues to raise awareness on the impacts of marine litter and ghost nets. This time we visited the elementary students of Colégio Externato Imaculada Conceiç&ati...

Can ghost nets be a carrier of pathogens in the ocean?
To answer this question and understand their possible environmental impact, we started today, an in situ experimen...

NetTag on the news. Check out the latest edition of Pesca Internacional magazine from our partner ARVI that explains the role of NetTag in the recovery of fishing nets.

During this week we had a meeting with the project officer of NetTag.
Aside from this briefing about the main results achieved so far in the project, it was also possible to cond...

Today was the field demonstration of our acoustic system and autonomous vehicle for the location and recovery of lost nets. Thank you INESCTEC and University of New castle for conductin...

NetTag had its first annual meeting at CIIMAR, gathering all the project partners. On this day, results obtained so far and upcoming activities were discussed to tackle the loss of ...

NetTag has started the dinamic talks and activities at the elementary school of Caxinas. From January to March, children from the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd and...

On this day, we talked about marine litter and ghost fishing to 1st graders in "Escola Ciência Viva" program at Gaia Biological Park. They learned wh...

The 2^nd Newsletter of NetTag is out! You can download it here, at the top of the page.

In this second Newsletter you can read about the results acheived so far...

It has been a busy month for the NetTag team Today participated in the 6th Atlantic Stakeholders Platform Conference engaging with stakeholders interested in marine litte...

NetTag participated in the blue economy conference Business2Sea, held in Porto, in November  2019. In there, the mains goals and achievements of the project were shared with stakeh...

Last November NetTag participated in the green technology expo, ECOMONDO 2019, in Rimini, Italy. During the two days of the event, NetTag attended a round table organised by EASME &ldqu...

NetTag participated in the CIESM congress 2019, in Cascais, where it was presented in the session 24 "Marine litter / Methods and assessments", the project and its m...

NetTag was present at the CIIMAR open day (21st September 2019), an ou-treach event, with hands-on activities to raise awareness of marine litter. Participants were asked to first colle...

In September, a researcher from NetTag, presented at the 20th Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies a poster entitled "Fishing the "ghosts"...

NetTag was at the national science summit 2019, in Lisbon, to talk about its main objectives and findings so far.

The 1^st Newsletter of NetTag is out! You can download it here, at the top of the page.

In this first Newsletter you can find out more about our project, our main ob...

NetTag attended the European Maritime Day 2019, that took place in Lisbon, from 16th to 17th of May. The gathering of maritime professionals, entrepreneurs an...

NetTag got together with fishermen and stakeholders, in several meetings from March to June, to discuss the problem of marine litter originated from fisheries.
T...

Marisa Almeida, researcher and coordinator from the NetTag project explains the project on the TV program "Mentes que brilham" of Porto canal.
You can ...

The kick-off meeting of NetTag took place at CIIMAR, in Matosinhos, Portugal, on February 2019, joining  all the partners. In this meeting, each partner presented ...

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