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Fathoms Free ghost net recovery featured on BB2

Julian Collison

Updated: Dec 7, 2020

In early September 2020 Fathoms Free volunteers were filmed for the BBC 2 two-part series 'Cornwall with Simon Reeve' recovering a 200m long monofilament net from a reef near Falmouth, Cornwall.

Simon interviewed Natalllia about the activities of Fathoms Free, helped pull the long net onto the boat, removed trapped wildlife from the net and helped bag it up for recycling.





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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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