Canada’s Ghost Gear Fund Removes 63 Tonnes of Fishing Gear from Atlantic Ocean in 2020
Fisheries and Oceans Canada highlighted the success of the Ghost Gear Fund, an initiative that helped support 26 projects which retried 63 tonnes of lost or discarded fishing gear from coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean in 2020.
According to the DFO, the gear retrieved was thanks to a number of projects behind the CAD $8.3 million Ghost Gear Fund, self-funded third-party projects authorized by the Department to collect gear, fishery officer patrols, and retrieved gear reports submitted by fish harvesters...
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