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More ghost gear recovered from the Coroni River wreck in Falmouth Bay

Updated: Apr 11, 2021

Following a report last weekend of ghost gear on the Coroni River wreck in Falmouth bay, a team of volunteers took advantage of a weather window and early afternoon tide to go and recover it. With the wind blowing force 4 Westerly, sporadic showers and stormy weather forecast for the coming weekend, it was not quite the Caribbean but the divers were greeted with 5 metres of underwater visibility and Jules the skipper was treated to a nice rainbow and spared a drenching by the rain. No pots of gold were found but half a dumpy bag of ghost gear including net, rope, monofilament and even a tyre were cleared off of the popular dive site




















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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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