Current biodegradable fishing products are less effective than ones made from synthetic plastics. Therefore, convincing the commercial fishing industry to adopt them will be a challenging task.
Biodegradable fishing gear is long overdue; plastic fishing gear is regularly abandoned in seas and oceans, where it can continue polluting the waters and harming marine life for centuries.
New report from WWF says abandoned fishing gear an “immortal menace” which must be central in t
So-called “ghost gear”, fishing equipment which is lost in the sea, can continue killing marine life for decades or even centuries after it first enters the ocean, making it the most deadly form of ma
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Current biodegradable fishing products are less effective than ones made from synthetic plastics. Therefore, convincing the commercial fishing industry to adopt them will be a challenging task.
Check out this organization that makes biodegradable fishing ropes and nets using biomaterials.
https://www.catchgreen.net/
Why not make fishing gear from biodegradable plastics, thus reducing the environmental impact of fishing?
Biodegradable fishing gear is long overdue; plastic fishing gear is regularly abandoned in seas and oceans, where it can continue polluting the waters and harming marine life for centuries.