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Ocean Great Ideas: Fishing nets with LED lights and selective panels to reduce bycatch
To change the tide of unsustainable fishing practices, some designers have jumped in with unique designs to prevent bycatch and overfishing. Inspired by an incident of Scottish fisherman exceeding the European Union catch quota and dumping back five metric tons of dead fish back into the North Sea in 2008, a British designer Dan Watson…
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Net-Works, a community-based supply chain for collecting discarded fishing nets
Net-Works™ is designed to tackle the growing environmental problem of discarded fishing nets in some of the world’s poorest coastal communities and to support Interface’s ambitious goals for recycled content for its carpet tile. The program has established a community-based supply chain for collecting discarded fishing nets in rural coastal areas within the Danajon Bank,…
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These Communities Turn Discarded Fishing Nets Into Carpets
Explorer Heather Koldewey is helping people in the Philippines and beyond clean up ocean plastic, starting with ghost nets. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/heather-koldeway-explorer-nets-plastic-philippines-ocean-culture/
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Threats of Ghost Fishing
Threats of Ghost Fishing is a short animation highlighting the effects of ghost gear on sea turtles in the Indian Ocean. The animation was produced by the Olive Ridley Project in collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and was funded by Global Blue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4QNMacikYU
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Hunting For Ghost Gear: What Happens When Fishing Nets Go Rogue | NBC News
Marine life is battling an unexpected enemy, lost fishing gear, also known as ghost gear. 705,000 tons of fishing gear are lost in the ocean every year. Mike Neill and his crew are trying to change that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69x4rRN7X3w
