Tag: Ghost fishing gear
INdIGO Project researching lost and discarded fishing gear in order to develop new biodegradable fishing equipment. Fishing gear is estimated to represent 27% of marine litter with more than 26,000km of equipment lost in the ...
IPNLF’s Joanna Toole Project sees Gemanafushi Island fishers remove abandoned fishing nets from Indian Ocean. On November 30th, 2020, fishers of Gemanafushi Island in the Maldives were grinning ear to ear after recovering four massive ...
Waste fishing gear threatens Ganges wildlife. Waste fishing gear in the River Ganges poses a threat to wildlife including otters, turtles and dolphins, new research shows. The study says entanglement in fishing gear could harm ...
Could a ‘Sacabout’ help fishermen cut plastic pollution? With governments across Europe rushing to outlaw wasteful single-use plastics, attention is moving to another source of plastic pollution along our coasts and beaches. A new invention ...
Tackling the threat of ghost fishing gear. A short update is provided below by Brendan Carruthers from The International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) who, through funding from the Joanna Toole Ghost Gear Solutions Award, ...
Canadian marine plastics pollution initiative. Four Canadian small businesses will receive Government grants to expand their innovative work to minimize plastics pollution by recycling fishing and aquaculture equipment and by adapting and recycling abandoned fishing ...
Seafish shines a light on positive work to tackle marine litter and end-of-life fishing gear, launching new film on the ‘Battle Against Plastic Waste’ on World Oceans Day. Seafish, the public body that supports the ...
MOU on Maldives ghost fishing finalised. An important Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been finalised between the International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) and the Olive Ridley Project (ORP) that will seek to assess the destruction caused to fragile ...
IPNLF to launch ghost net retrieval project. Funded by the inaugural Joanna Toole Ghost Gear Solutions Award, a new initiative will be launched by IPNLF aimed at incentivising coastal fisheries to collect and upcycle lost ...
Increase in Irish boats in Clean Oceans Initiative. The Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, TD, has welcomed the increase in trawlers and other fishing boats now signed up to Ireland’s ...
Smart Net Management focus of BIM and ISWFPO workshop in Castletownbere. Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), Ireland’s seafood development agency, and the Irish South and West Fishermen’s Producers Organisation (ISWFPO) co-hosted a net management workshop in ...
Canada tackles plastic pollution and ghost fishing gear in our oceans. Plastic pollution is a global challenge that requires immediate action. It pollutes our rivers, lakes, and oceans and entangles and kills marine mammals. Every ...
Three day operation to remove ghost gear in Gulf of St. Lawrence underway. As part of Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s and Canadian Coast Guard efforts to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale, fishery officers ...
Australian seafood industry in war against plastic. Seafood Industry Australia (SIA), the national peak body representing the Australian seafood industry, has taken Plastic-Free July as an opportunity to highlight the innovative ways seafood businesses are ...
Hundreds of sharks and rays tangled in plastic. Hundreds of sharks and rays have become tangled in plastic waste in the world’s oceans, new research shows. University of Exeter scientists scoured existing published studies and Twitter for ...
Skippers call for tougher controls on gill net and longline fishing amid mounting concern over plastic pollution. Fishing skippers in Shetland are demanding urgent action on gill net and longline fishing by overseas vessels because ...
Fishers aware of damage marine litter causes. Commercial fishers are acutely aware of the potential for marine litter to cause lasting damage to their catches and the wider industry, a new study suggests. They also ...
Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food & the Marine, Michael Creed T.D., has announced Ireland’s Clean Oceans Initiative and called for the participation of the entire Irish trawl fishing fleet in the scheme by 31st December 2019. His ...
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