THE GHOST NET PHENOMENON
Kills 650,000 marine animals a year.
Nets ‘fish’ for a further 30 years.
ALDFG - Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear
In 2017, 12.7 million tonnes of plastic waste entered the sea.
Ocean Cleanup survey identified that 46% of the plastic waste in the ocean is due to fishing nets.
NET FORECAST
Smart and efficient net recovery.
Net ID: 154
Longitude: 55.71
Latitude: -14.50
Net ID: 154
Longitude: 55.55
Latitude: -15.00
Starting Time: 14:00
BENEFITS
Reduce commercial losses.
Avoid fines and penalties.
Reduce the risk of prosecution.
Reduce the impact on wildlife.
Standardise the tracking and rapid retrieval of ALDFG to reduce the number of ghost nets lost by 75%
PUBLIC ACTION
Plan a net rescue on your private vessel.
NET FORECAST
Smart and efficient net recovery.
SIRENS
Sophie Ashcroft : mssososophie
Ariadne Thompson : ariadnethompson
Ruth Maycock : RuthMaycock
Bernice Thorpe : bernana777
Sharleen Braham: S-B1
Today, bottom set gill nets are more often-cited as a problem. The bottom edge of these nets is anchored to the sea floor and floats are attached to their top, so that they form a vertical undersea wall of netting that can run anywhere from 600 to 10 000 meters in length. If a gillnet is abandoned or lost, it can continue to fish on its own for months - and sometimes years - indiscriminately killing fish and other animals.
Traps and pots are another major ghost fisher. In the Chesapeake Bay of the United States, an estimated 150 000 crab traps are lost each year out of an estimated 500 000 total deployed. On just the single Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, about 20 000 of all traps set each year are lost each hurricane season - a loss rate of 50 percent. Like gill nets, these traps can continue to fish on their own for long periods of time.
Net ID: 154
Longitude: 55.71
Latitude: -14.50
Net ID: 154
Longitude: 55.55
Latitude: -15.00
Starting Time: 14:00