Cape Town’s pioneering net recycling facility
An initiative to transforms discarded fishing nets into usable plastic materials has been opened on Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront. The new facility at Collier Jetty was opened by Minister of…
Clean-up operation with record lost fishing gear recovery
This year’s clean-up operation in Norwegian waters has come to an end, again having set a new record for the volume of lost gear retrieved. This year a total of…
100-tonne lost gear recovery and re-use target
Working with the National Federation of Fishermen's Guilds (FNCP) and the Galician Automotive Technology Centre (CTAG), Spanish fishing industry federation Cepesca aims to recover at least 100 tonnes of discarded…
Clean-up ends with new record set
This year’s clean-up of Norwegian fishing grounds run by the Directorate of Fisheries has ended with a total of 45 kilometres of nets being retrieved – which sets a new…
Lodairo landed lost crab pots to be recycled ashore at the end of its last trip. Images: DFFU
Waste gear is a shared responsibility
Crab pots from the Barents Sea caught in the trawl gear of Deutsche Fischfang-Union (DFFU) trawler Lodairo have ended up being recycled in Germany. Lodairo’s cache of scrap crab pots…
Clearing Shetland waters of ghost gear
An initiative by Ghost Fishing UK to clean up a stretch of the Shetland waters by locating, recovering and recycling lost gear has been assisted by Lerwick Port Authority. The…
Lost gear clean-up operation underway
This year's clean-up cruise to locate and retrieve lost fishing gear in Norwegian waters is underway, with pelagic vessel Vikingbank this year chartered for this purpose. Vikingbank sailed on 10th…
Clearing Australian waters of marine debris
In 2021 the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) deployment of chartered vessels supporting targeted operations to combat IUU fishing also resulted in successfully removing 4500kg of marine debris. Working closely…
