10-23-2009, 05:45 AM
Meandering through some regular, non-fishing news site, a headline on fishing caught my eye. The article is too long to post in its entirety on this site, but, here is enough to get the general idea.
[cool]California's coastal waters a dump for fishing gear
[ul][li] 17:54 22 October 2009 by Shanta Barley [/li][/ul]
For the first time, scientists have used a submersible to investigate the debris piling up in deep-water canyons off the coast of California. To their surprise, they found that recreational fishing gear accounted for 93 per cent of the underwater trash.
"Sometimes we had to change the path of the submersible to avoid becoming entangled with recreational fishing lines and nets," says Dianna Watters of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service in Santa Cruz, California.
"This is a really surprising result," says Anthony Jensen, who studies fisheries and artificial reefs at the National Oceanographic Centre in Southampton, UK, and was not involved in the survey. "Who would have thought that recreational fishers would account for more rubbish in a deep-sea ecosystem than the commercial fishing industry?"[shocked]
Having been aware of the magnitude of the problem, I am looking for similar studies. Here are some potentials:
"Power companies report significant income from the resale of lures, hook, sinkers and rewound line recovered from ..."
"Recent medical studies have shown an abnormally high incidence of minor to middling ER treatments of arborists wounded by their efforts to remove fishing tackle from trees they were..."
I do not think the fishing supply business will ever go broke!
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[cool]California's coastal waters a dump for fishing gear
[ul][li] 17:54 22 October 2009 by Shanta Barley [/li][/ul]
For the first time, scientists have used a submersible to investigate the debris piling up in deep-water canyons off the coast of California. To their surprise, they found that recreational fishing gear accounted for 93 per cent of the underwater trash.
"Sometimes we had to change the path of the submersible to avoid becoming entangled with recreational fishing lines and nets," says Dianna Watters of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service in Santa Cruz, California.
"This is a really surprising result," says Anthony Jensen, who studies fisheries and artificial reefs at the National Oceanographic Centre in Southampton, UK, and was not involved in the survey. "Who would have thought that recreational fishers would account for more rubbish in a deep-sea ecosystem than the commercial fishing industry?"[shocked]
Having been aware of the magnitude of the problem, I am looking for similar studies. Here are some potentials:
"Power companies report significant income from the resale of lures, hook, sinkers and rewound line recovered from ..."
"Recent medical studies have shown an abnormally high incidence of minor to middling ER treatments of arborists wounded by their efforts to remove fishing tackle from trees they were..."
I do not think the fishing supply business will ever go broke!
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