Bergel+ adheres to the Turtle Safe quality certification!

The Bergel+ bar and restaurant service has joined the 'Turtle Safe' brand of Friend of the Sea®.

The 'Turtle Safe' brand is succeeding. Born from a close collaboration between Tartalife and Friend of the Sea® , the world’s leading certification standard for products and services that respect and protect the marine environment, this brand has now a new member. Bergel+ is a company that boasts a historical presence on the fish market of Milan, and draws from multiple suppliers. "If companies like Bergel+ - explains Paola Elpidi of Friend of the Sea - marries projects like this, and divulges them to its customers, the impact on the market and on the image of the certification is important. It is an effective awareness of those people to whom, for us, it is particularly difficult to reach: the end users (cooks and restaurateurs) and the and the other suppliers. On private consumers, in fact, it is much simpler and immediate to put ethics and the protection of animals in the first place".

objective

reduction of sea turtle mortality in the professional fishing

project in brief

The conservation of Caretta caretta, a priority species included in App. II/IV of the Habitat Directive and protected in various international Conventions, has been representing a strategic issue for the whole Mediterranean basin, with professional fishing being the main threat for the survival of marine turtles: every year about 130000 turtles can be accidentally caught accidentally in the Mediterranean.

The project TartaLife, involving all 15 Italian regions overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, aims at reducing:
- bycatches caused by pelagic longline, bottom trawl and fixed nets by disseminating technical innovations of the fishing gears;
- post-capture mortality through trainings for fishermen and strengthening the marine turtles First Aid/Rescue Centres

TartaLife project

Life+ programme

The LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental policy and legislation by co-financing pilot or demonstration projects with European added value.

LIFE began in 1992 and to date there have been four complete phases of the programme (LIFE I: 1992-1995, LIFE II: 1996-1999, LIFE III: 2000-2006 and LIFE+: 2007-2013). During this period, LIFE has co-financed some 3954 projects across the EU, contributing approximately €3.1 billion to the protection of the environment.

Life+ programme