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Canada continues to combat ghost gear in our oceans with launch of new reporting system | |
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2021-07-21 | |
发布年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 加拿大 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | Lost, abandoned or derelict fishing gear, or ‘ghost gear,’ is a leading cause of marine pollution. It can cause serious harm to our marine mammals and it threatens the health of our oceans’ ecosystems. As part of the Government of Canada’s ongoing effort to protect our oceans, the Ghost Gear Fund (Sustainable Fisheries Solutions and Retrieval Support Contribution Program) was launched in 2019. Just two years later, the Ghost Gear Fund has helped remove 224 tonnes of old gear from Canadian and international waters – the equivalent weight of 36 elephants. The Fund has returned 101 units of lost gear back to harvesters and helped develop news ways to prevent and track lost gear in the future. Today, the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Bernadette Jordan, announced a new online system that makes it easier for commercial harvesters to report their lost fishing gear. The new Fishing Gear Reporting System allows commercial harvesters to conveniently input a description of their lost gear, the cause of loss, and its location from any online device. All commercial harvesters in Canada are required to report their lost fishing gear to Fisheries and Oceans Canada. This reporting helps the Department and other partners locate and remove lost gear from our waters and, in many cases, return the gear to its rightful owner. The Fishing Gear Reporting System was developed under the Ghost Gear Fund, and will provide Fisheries and Oceans Canada with more accurate and timely data on areas where gear-loss is most frequent, as well as the most common causes of gear loss. This information will help the Department to better target areas for ghost gear retrieval activities and find solutions to help prevent gear-loss in the future. Quotes
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来源平台 | Government of Canada - Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
文献类型 | 新闻 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/332996 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
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