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Seychelles: European Fishing Groups Agree to Recycle Fishing Nets, Gear With Seychelles Company #AfricaClimateCrisis
Seychelles News Agency, 30 May 2022
Three organisations in Seychelles have signed an agreement to recycle and reuse fishing nets and gears discarded and abandoned by the tuna fishing industry. Read more »
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Africa: Global Initiative Tackles Marine Litter to Clean Up the World's Oceans
FAO, 8 April 2021
30 countries partner with FAO and International Maritime Organization Read more »
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Africa: How to Banish the Ghosts of Dead Fishing Gear From Our Seas
UNEP, 17 December 2018
In August, around 300 endangered sea turtles were found dead off the southern coast of Mexico, trapped in what was believed to be an abandoned fishing net. The deaths of the olive… Read more »
Seychelles to Recycle Fishing Gear #AfricaClimateCrisis
Discarded industrial fishing gear accounts for about 10% of the more 12 million tons of plastic waste that ends up in the world's oceans every year, according to WWF. It is also "the deadliest form of marine plastic as it unselectively catches wildlife, entangling marine mammals, seabirds, sea turtles, and sharks, subjecting them to a slow and painful death through exhaustion and suffocation".
To address this global challenge a new partnership between a Seychellois company and European fishing organisations will collect abandoned fishing gear and recycle it at a local facility.
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African leaders called for intensified effrots to combat plastic pollution, coastal erosion and illegal fishing during the #OneOceanSummit in France. Presidents Hage Geingob from ... Read more »
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China is the world's biggest fish producer and has the largest distant-water fleet (CDWF) - officially 2,701 vessels but likely thousands more - many of which engage in high ... Read more »
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Communities around Lake Victoria, the world's second-largest lake, have relied on the body of water for food, energy, and water for generations. It has been estimated that the 30 ... Read more »
