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Shore based recovery - 6 pots and sadly a collection of dead marine life

Yesterday, Fathoms Free were made aware of some pots that had appeared on a remote beach in Cornwall. This morning, one of our volunteer divers, Jim, decided to go and ensure the pots wouldn't get taken back out to sea and release any marine life that was trapped.

Unfortunately, only one lobster and three crabs were still living and placed back into the sea. Everything else trapped in the pots, from crabs to catshark, was dead.

Sadly, this is another example of marine life wasted due to ALDFG (abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear) that we commonly call ghost gear.

Big thanks to Jim, for responding and ensuring these wildlife traps no longer pose a threat to marine life



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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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