Educational Kick-off with Healthy Seas in Athens Kicking off our Healthy Seas educational activities this year, with a special programme in Athens This year’s first educational programme had special meaning. With COVID restrictions being lifted in many countries, we were happy to be able to kick off our activities already in the first quarter, at the…
Back to Burghead Scotland There were still over 300 creel pots and many 100s of meters of rope lost in the Moray Firth, a result of Storm Arwen part of 2021–2022 European windstorm season, we were contacted by local fisherman desperate for assistance in December, the lost creels are devastating to local fisherman livelihoods and are also…
Scientific project about ghost nets kicks off in the Adriatic Sea Ghost Diving and Healthy Seas, in collaboration with Wageningen University & Research, embarked on a pilot initiative to determine the ecological impact and sources of ghost nets recovered by volunteer divers in the North and the Adriatic Seas. A better understanding of these issues will…
Ghost Diving East Med: Growth is inevitable One sentence we always repeat, “if fishing is active in an area, there is ghost gear too”. Ghost Diving initiatives have augmented globally to race with the amount of ghost nets and discarded fishing gear dispersed in our seas and oceans; therefore, the need for action has…
Ghost Gear reports activate UKGGC teams We were in Burgh head on the North East coast of Scotland helping a local fisherman recover over 500 lobster pots lost during storm Arwen. Whilst we were there, we received a call from Derek Anderson, the skipper of an Eyemouth dive charter. Derek had been approached by a St…
Ghost Gear research in North Sea winter conditions It is December 18, the meteorological winter has already started and the water temperature has dropped to about 8 degrees Celsius. Our last North Sea mission was on 9 October and since then we have been anxiously waiting for a beautiful day to set sail with MV MAKO. That…
Ghost Diving UK helps fisherman after Storm Arwen Storm Arwen helped whip up some of the worst sea conditions in 65 years as a creel fisherman from the North East Scotland requested the help from our Ghost Diving UK North team to recover 400+ pots. We made the first visit early December, at short notice…
Three tons of fish farm nets recovered in Patroklos Greece December 2021 brought us again to Patroklos, a small island in the Attica region. The island has great historical and archeological value and belongs to the NATURA 2000 Network of Protected Areas. We started projects there back in 2016 with Ghost Diving Greece because there are…
Ghost Gear cleanups Cavo Greco Marine Protected Area Cyprus At the end of November, we seized the opportunity to resume our recently launched surveys in Cyprus. This country, located in the east of the Mediterranean Sea and surrounded by clear blue seas, has of course suffered a lot in recent decades under the pressure of, among…
UK Ghost Gear Coalition Formed to Reduce Diving Team Response Time Abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), otherwise known as ghost gear, has been receiving more and more attention in recent years. Scientific reports indicate that ghost nets are the deadliest form of marine plastic pollution, killing millions of marine animals. Thankfully, there…