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Ghost gear recovered from Looe beach after winter storms

Feb 1
1 min read

Today, the team tackled a large tangled mess of ghost gear that had washed up on Looe beach.

While we were at the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Your Shore Network conference yesterday, multiple reports from members of the public came in about the monstrous mess.

As we were in the complete opposite direction in St Ives, we dropped a message to Fathoms Free volunteer Tom, who runs Dive Looe, to see if he could check it out.

He popped straight down and reported back that some people had dragged it up the beach and secured it to the railings so that it wouldn't go anywhere. He also said his car boot definitely wasn't going to be big enough, and more hands were needed!

We popped across this afternoon, and it wasn't long before we realised our wheelbarrow is a bit flimsy relative to our enthusiasm, and one dumpy bag wasn't really enough!

After several wheelbarrows full and a large lump dragged up the slipway to the truck, the team soon had it cleared.

Great work Elle, Luke, Tom and Rhys


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Fathoms Free is a group of volunteer divers who protect marine wildlife and the environment for everyone's benefit by removing ALDFG (abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear) and other marine debris from the coastal waters of Cornwall and Devon.

ALDFG is also known as ghost gear or ghost fishing gear, as it continues to "fish," entangling, trapping, and killing wildlife indiscriminately. These trapped animals will die and act as bait, attracting more wildlife in a vicious cycle of death until the ghost gear is removed from the environment.

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Fathoms free are a registered charity.

UK charity number 1192613

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