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Healthy Seas? Stop ghost-fishing! North Sea - RAC Ate Oostra Berlin, October 2012

Healthy Seas? Stop ghost-fishing! North Sea - RAC Ate Oostra Berlin, October 2012. The “100 wrecks clean up project”, part of the “Healthy Sea Programme”. Participating organisations: Vereniging Kust & Zee (Dutch Branch of Coastal & Marine Union - EUCC)

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Healthy Seas? Stop ghost-fishing! North Sea - RAC Ate Oostra Berlin, October 2012

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  1. Healthy Seas? • Stop ghost-fishing! North Sea - RAC Ate Oostra Berlin, October 2012

  2. The “100 wrecks clean up project”, part of the “Healthy Sea Programme” • Participating organisations: • Vereniging Kust & Zee • (Dutch Branch of Coastal & Marine Union - EUCC) • Duik de Noordzee Schoon (voluntary divers) • North Sea Foundation • Sportvisserij Nederland • Project is funded by the Dutch Postcode Lottery (NPL)

  3. Facts: • Thousands of shipwrecks are present in the North Sea (e.g. over 3000 in the Dutch part alone) • Gradual disappearance of the seafloor’s hard substrate (rocks and pebbles), makes wrecks increasingly • important to plants and animals • A wrack is home to appr. 250 species of which 90% is not present at the sandy seafloor at all • Shipwrecks are true biological hotspots! • However, nets of the fishing industry and lines and lead weights of anglers get stuck, causing littering and ghost-fishing

  4. This is how littered shipwrecks look like

  5. Facts: • Appr. 6000 kg of fishing nets are presentlyremovedannually (<33 cleanedwrecksonly , and there are thousands of wrecks present) • “Catching capacity of static cod-gear over a wreck continued for 2 years at low level" ("The catching capacity of lost static gears“, Mike Pawson. CEFAS # 33. HT UK.) • Considerablequanties of lead (hundreds of tons of leadweights) are lost at wrecksannually,Dutch NorthSeaonly • Fish and crabsgetcaught and die…

  6. Project Gezonde Zee: wrakken vol leven

  7. The joint project: Divers clean up 100 shipwrecks in the Dutch North-Sea (2011-2013) Meetings with stakeholders and policy makers to formulate new policies to address the issue Development of new materials: alternatives to lead, lead weights and fishlines (biolines) Production of films and photos Informing the public at large

  8. Project Gezonde Zee: wrakken vol leven

  9. Project Gezonde Zee: wrakken vol leven

  10. Cleaning up wrecks

  11. How could we help the sea, yourself and us? • Avoid fishing too closely to shipwrecks, neither with e.g. bottom trawling nets nor gill-nets • Do not lose nets • Could we jointly try to develop the right policy? contact us to this end! if possible before 10 th of November when a meeting of stakeholders is envisaged. • Further information can be obtained at, Mike Mannaart, Project Manager: • m.mannaart@eucc.net

  12. Thank you for your attention • QUESTIONS?

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