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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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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
