EBFA welcomes limits on seafloor litter
Up to 12 million tonnes of plastic enter our oceans every year and most of it doesn’t float. To tackle this issue, the EU has just set new limits on seafloor…
Taking a stand on plastic pollution
Ahead of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee’s meeting to address plastic pollution, the International Coalition of Fisheries Associations has (ICFA) reiterated that the seafood community and its regulators must remain fully…
Danish waters full of plankton – not microplastics
Researchers from DTU have for some years worked towards an overview of how much microplastic is in our marine environment and the effect it has on the food chain in…
Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Norwegian fishing gear supplier Mørenot is playing a key role in the initiative to remove plastic from the marine environment spearheaded by Dutch NGO The Ocean Cleanup. A prototype set…
APASA vessels retrieved 452kg of plastic marine waste from June to September last year
World’s first plastic neutral fishery
As part of an annual ghost gear removal competition project in 2021, the Azores fleet has removed more plastic fishing gear from the ocean, by weight, than it lost on…
Wales rolls out fishing gear recycling
Wales is taking action against marine waste with a recycling scheme for fishing gear. Recycling bins for used fishing gear have been placed at Swansea, Milford Haven, Fishguard, Cardigan, Conwy,…
Scotland tackling marine litter
A project to help remove harmful marine litter and raise awareness of its environmental impact is set to be expanded, thanks to close to £180,000 from the Marine Fund Scotland.…
Every metre of hauled new rope releases around 20 microplastic fragments into the ocean, and for older rope that figure rises to as much as 760 fragments per metre
Maritime rope could be adding billions of microplastics to oceans
The hauling of rope on fishing and other vessels could result in billions of microplastic fragments entering the ocean every year, according to new research. A study by the University…
In a single day volunteers collected close to two tonnes of mainly plastic waste from the beach at Krossavík. Image: Hampiðjan
Insights from Hampiðjan’s annual beach clean-up
Every year staff from fishing gear manufacturer Hampiðjan and their families join in a beach clean-up session, and this year’s effort highlighted some of the changes in the way fishing…
Fish in a beach seine for microplastic analysis. Image: Maiju Lehtiniemi SYKE
Microplastics found in all water systems
According to research by Finnish Environment Institute SYKE and University of Eastern Finland, microplastics are now found in all Baltic waters and in fish, bivalve molluscs and benthic fauna. Microplastics…
