ASSO-MER

ASSO-MER, an association under the 1901 law, was created in 2016 with the aim of managing and protecting Martinique’s marine heritage. For more than three years now, the association has taken a prominent place in the associative landscape for the protection and enhancement of the sea. Our association now has many volunteers involved, motivated members and diverse skills, including scientific and technical. The richness of the work carried out is largely based on the network of institutional and private partners which L’ASSO-MER has set up.

The Maritime Intervention Brigade 2

ASSO-MER created BIM (Maritime Intervention Brigade) in 2017 who’s main objective is to collect underwater and coastal waste from all over Martinique in order to reduce their impact on the marine environment (including fishing gear abandoned or lost at sea). With this new project, we want to move from one-off operations to a more regular, more successful and above all more operational mission of collective interest through several aspects.

Phase 1: Concert around a local scientific protocol ranging from tracking to recycling of waste

Phase 2: Organize the arrival of a trainer in Martinique

Phase 3: Prevent and communicate

Phase 4: Locating waste at sea

Phase 5: Recover waste / minimum 6 big collection operations over the duration of the project

Phase 6: Create a waste collection network in Martinique / signature of a partnership agreement with stakeholders and public partners

Phase 7: Recovering waste, nets and fishing gear recovered by an artistic operation for educational purposes.

Source: United Nations Environment Programme (2021). Compendium of case studies on solid waste management.