Deadly ocean trash - The impact of ghost nets | DW Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- Every year, up to a million tons of fishing nets are lost or dumped at sea. These "ghost nets” continue to kill indiscriminately. Millions of marine animals die in agony each year, while conservationists conduct diving operations to recover the nets.
Nets and parts of nets are lost during storms and accidents, or get stuck on wrecks. However, illegal dumping is also causing the number of ghost nets to increase, with the sea serving as cheap landfill.
Since the 1960s, fishing nets have no longer been made using natural fibers like hemp, sisal or linen, but from synthetic materials. A synthetic net can take 600 years to decompose, and that’s how long it will remain a deadly trap for marine life. Each year, more than 130,000 dolphins, seals, sea lions and whales, as well as millions of fish, birds and turtles, die as a result.
The remains of countless nets also wash up on the beaches of the North and Baltic Seas. The island of Heligoland is home to an important bird sanctuary, the guillemot rock. Over 10,000 pairs of guillemots, kittiwakes and gannets breed there. While the populations have recovered in recent years, more and more breeding birds are building their nests out of the tear-resistant plastic scraps they find on the beach. That can be deadly, especially for their offspring.
Around the world, more and more initiatives are being launched to try to salvage and recycle ghost nets. But recycling is costly and salvage operations are not without danger.
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If the volunteers are reading this...THANK YOU SOOO SOO MUCH FOR THE WORK YOU ARE DOING. This is so hard to watch.
Thank you DW.
As someone who has had first hand experience salvage-diving in the Baltic Sea, I can tell you it's no picnic! It's very hard work. Bravo to all of you with your ecological awareness and open-mindedness, and bravery. Now, if we can just get people to do something similarly here in the USA. Wishful thinking I'm afraid. "Pingme" seems to be a terrific idea. But, what if the nets were also to be branded or labeled in some way with the owners name? That way, the guilty party would have to pay a "clean-up" tax and it would be the "owner's" responsibility to recycle the mess. I think if the nets were addressed directly to the owner, they would be much more careful and cautious not to let the problem arise in the first place. As things are now, they don't care, because they can just write it off on their taxes, as a "loss" and even get money back to cover that production expense. DW thanks!
Nets should be extremely expensive like 10,000 euros per foot and they would think twice about loosing it. Name tag, serial numbers all that can be tampered with. But if you have to come up with thousands of euros per foot for these nets. They would definitely never loose their net and if they did they would go after it as if it was gold.
People I general doesn't care about cheap, easily accessible stuff in general. Humans go to the depth of he'll to extract rich minerals, diamonds, gold, platinum etc. So, if these nets were extremely expensive they would not loose it and if they did they would immediately send people after it as if it was the blue diamond.
Meanwhile tax net makers, plastic companies, the likes of Dupont, forcing them to come up with better biodegradable solution.
Problem solved next. 😉🙃
@@QuicoKoalaThank you Casper I have said basically the same thing it would stop a lot of Needless throwing these net's AWAY.
Adding that serial number excellent idea!
Who, where, & When it was Bought.
So that you would have to pay a hefty FINE💰 if you Discard it.
Was it baltic?
A reward, say, a tax deduction or something could be a useful carrot to get fisheries to report lost nets too. Much more effective than the threat of a fine.
@@marcussoininen2084 And since when awarding people had accomplished anything? As if people need to be rewarded for doing the right thing, instead of punishing those who do wrong. That's what's wrong with our society. It would not be a treat, it would be mandatory or have your fishing, boat, or company licenses suspended indefinitely.
My heart breaks for all those poor creatures that had to suffer. 😔 Baltic Sea is their home, it's our responsibility to act more mindful. 🌊💖
No matter where we at and what we do for the living and with our daily lives, we all can do better and become more mindful with our daily actions, the resources we use and waste we creat and dispose. 🙏🏼
Thank You DW for making this informative documentary. 😌
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go vegan then mate. When people stop buying fish this stops. Simple.
Forger making tiny bracelets out of the garbage nets. Just turn all nets into hammocks. That'll get rid of them faster. And even mix-match smaller pieces of nets into bigger ones to make hammocks.
The fact that we get free documentary on RUclips by DW Documentary is truly a gift. 🤙🏽
Been cutting nets and lines here in the Pacific while freediving. Scary. If you tangle...you're dead. Tightly controlled Fish farms in onshore pools is the solution. The ocean needs a long break and we need to stop overpopulation now.
Great to see these people doing what they can to mitigate the problem!
Mitigate is a fancier word for putting a bandage over the problem, it doesn't solve anything it only prolongs the inevitable. Big corrupt corporations like to use the word mitigate because it mislead the ill-educated public into believing they are doing something good for the environment, while in actuality they are sun tanning and playing blackjack in the likes of Monaco.
What wonderful work these people are doing. It gives one hope in humankind….if only the loss into the seas of this stuff could be stopped/prohibited. If there were a will…. And, again, good for you, DW
Its intentional exploitation of an unregulated uncared for ecosystem. The largest one, the mother of all life.
I found the optimist 😂🤣😭☠️ Im jealous of you naivety. BTW rsvp for my end of the world party 2050
Lost is one thing. Dumped is another. Just gather your nets up and dispose of them properly. You make your living from the sea... have a little respect for it.
How frustrating this is. We humans just don’t care unless it affect us directly and that’s the wrong way IMO
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.
-Cree First Peoples
Thank you for keeping us informed 🍂
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Me too!
And hopefully all of us that read & see this will pass this information on to others that haven't.👍
You guys make some of the best documentaries on the internet
And so sad too. let’s all do our planet pride, country pride, etc...
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About 45 years ago I reported on this problem in the Muse, the student newspaper at Memorial University. This was to cover a campaign by in shore fishers in Newfoundland and Labrador, to end the use o drift nets and other nets prone to loss and continue fishing for decades. These nets are made of materials that don't decay.
And still nothing has changed
@@bond8436 And eventually the Sun which our planet revolve will eventually die. I grew up in a place that the fishery was the life blood of the people, the vast majority of the people lived within sight of the ocean. Traditional traps and nets were made of twine, they could break their moorings, be lost, and for a time continue to fish. It is when synthetic fibers replaced twine that lost fishing gear that the significance of ghost fishing became a long term problem
Our actions have far more reaching effects than we could have ever imagined
Agreed. Makes me sick how much life is ruined and compromised by our stupid actions.
fishing companies should be made to pay a percentage of their catch to pay the costs for these divers etc
Yea blame the profit motivated companies not the people that eat seafood and fuel the demand..
Yet another documentary I didn’t think I would find all too interesting at first only to have that opinion completely changed, Bravo dw from the United States
If they could somehow determine who lost the nets they could be fined. Maybe they could start requiring the nets to be tagged with the owners id.
Each person, each diver, in this documentary is making a difference. Just goes to show you by one action of just cutting nets and taking them out of the water, you can decrease the chances of wildlife dying prematurely and increase the populations of depleted fish.
Who says one person cannot make a difference?? To them I say Get To Work and find organization that you can literally do something like coral reef farming and diving to protect our oceans. We must prevent overfishing! We must protect the one planet that promotes life! I mean how is that not even a priority on everyone’s mind at this point!
You are so wrong, that plastic is like 0.00000000000000001% of the plastic that's thrown out each year in the ocean.
No one person can make a difference now.
We're screwed until a cataclysmic event happens and resets the path we are on.
Which is war where billions die, or mother nature eliminates the threat to her which is us humans.
Exactly it doesn’t go to show “there are others who will do this for me”. It just shows, for a dumb high example, what happens when a few people tend to a relatively insignificant task- consistently and incentivized. It’s the only way- an incentive whether from punishment or for gain
As a diver my self there's not enough thumbs up I could give u guys 💯👍👍💯 great job.
Thank you for this information
Thank you DW for this informative documentary.I didn't know about the ghost nets before watching this documentary.Salute to these NGO workers who are doing such a good deed with a tight budget.Governments need to pitch in and help these NGOs out.
All nets should have an ID tag and transponder/beacon before going into the sea.
Wonderful work by these people..i hope they can come to my country Ghana and save this spices..
Very good document. MORE AND MORE!
WITH LOVE FROM BELGIUM.......
😊😊 Great Documentary.
A fantastic and well-made documentary. Many thanks DW
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EXCELLENT DOC, DID MY COLLEGE CAPSTONE ON OCEAN PLASTICS, SAD TO SEE IT HAS ONLY GOTTEN SO MUCH WORSE THAN EXPECTED. not intended to be all caps but why not
These companies want to make profits and don't want to clean up after themselves. They should be taxed and pay these clean up crews.
I’ve stopped eating fish because of the pollution and the carnage and the poison
Can't recycled ghost nets be used in hillside stabilization and other anti-erosion projects?
So heartbreaking! yet there's a glimpse of hope. Let's all do our part. Remember the butterfly effect!
Respectable (DW)Documentary channel ,Excellent Journal Coverage video about Ghost Nets inside Ocean ...Good doing by These individuals of Specific Organization they Using their capabilities to saving Marine Floors & Reforming Marine Ecosystems in Baltic Sea
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A record of each net before and after use. You welcome.
This will be a beautiful world deprived of humans 😍
Deprived of filth. Proper human beings can stay 👍
God bless you all!!! This should be implemented by every government to the ones who break the law, steal around, etc. Instead of paying a fine, they should go to our lakes, rivers, oceans and clean everything!!!! Thanks one more time DWDocumentary for inspiring me❤❤❤
Thanks for such wonderful documentary!
I think ghost nets are good materials for making hammocks, insects screen or nets, even put into fashion manufacturing
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@@DWDocumentary ghost nets can also be used to make nets for the tennis courts and badminton courts....
SAVE THE PLANET
I think I know what you mean 👍, but the planet will be fine, but life on the planet won't.
We're killing it all!
Sad! And stupid!
Amazing work!
Well done and thank you to the people featured in this documentary who are doing what they can to improve the health of the oceans. What can the rest of us do to support them?
1) Pressure our governments to reinvest the tax revenue they get from the fishing industry back into cleaning up the mess left behind as well as banning dolly ropes & other harmful practices.
2) Reduce our consumption of fish and seafood.
3) Don't buy net-caught fish.
4) Support any environmentally responsible, ethical, small-scale local fisheries.
5) Reduce our own plastic consumption.
6) Support NGOs like those featured, with time or money if that's possible.
Are you dumb if we want to save the oceans we need to leave it alone there is nothing called environmentally responsible or ethical fishing!
Ignoring your rudeness, I in part agree that we should leave the oceans as alone as possible to recover from the damage we have done to them. However I disagree that there is nothing called environmentally responsible or ethical fishing. Human beings fished without destroying the ecology of the oceans for millennia. The problem is far more recent and based on 2 principle problems: 1) Fishing for profit - disastrous for the oceans as the desire for money can never be assuaged unlike the need for food. 2) Industrialisation - which has given human beings the machinery to empty the oceans of life.
It is possible to both recognise that the demand for fish and seafood needs to be reduced radically, but that there are also people who fish sustainably in this world and that there are also locally based fisheries that do not exceed the carrying capacity of the oceans they fish from. Arguing that humans give up fishing or consuming fish totally - instead of all of us reducing our consumption while supporting those fishing in responsible ways, will achieve absolutely nothing.
I salute all these human that care for the sea animals and environment enough to risk their lives in these dangerous dives. At the same time time we know time is running out to save ourselves and eventually human will suffer as well.
These people are heros
maybe steel in the threads .. so magnets could capture re the nets
People we need to fix this!
Thank you!
Thank you
May the Good Lord guide these diverse always for the wonderful job that they do.
Good work.
When we give up greed ..we will live in harmony
Wow the government should be paying these people good money for risking their lives. Imagine id governments all around the world was heavily committed to cleaning their oceans, how beautiful it would become...
I bet even 99 trillions also cannot remove all the plastic from the ocean
thank you for doing something
Abu imoro.
I hope this will be a continues thing...the fishermen need more education.
It is a felony to pick up ghost traps or nets in the United States....
On the beach or in the water.
I learned this after I looked up the regulations. Disgusting.
Life lesson learnt: Don't take water bodies for granted and dispose in them whatever you like, it may very well end up in your own plate.
This is the worst thing we can do to the birds and animals. Imagine someone doing this to us. Best documentary as always.
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You guys are the best
Lost lobster traps & lost fish traps continue to trap and kill for months ! Thank you for those who are trying to clean the oceans !
The company making things front he nets is a great idea, the only trouble is like Fashion once people don't want the products anymore they end dup in landfill
You guys can make "GIMLY SUITS" with some used nets too...
If you rearrange it and compact with some other materials recycled materials, you can make small roofs
believe that ocean trash is not just the negligence of citizens or the failure of government management. But it can be from floods, hurricanes, and tsunamis.
Human's materialistic greed leads to misery
Thanks for your efforts..... i wish too help
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this triggered my thallasyphobia so bad, but thankyou for spreading the word
Now I believed that this is a reminder that the chaos or conflict we face here in the surface land, somewhere down below the ocean and even above the surface, specifies or a variety of species suffers with the man-made waste we discard.
As Newton 3rd Law states, "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction".
In short, "karma is real".
Ummm I am confused!!! With brace. Net recycling of ghost nets into bracelets and the plastic will go back to water ways again. It will be helpful to incinerate the plastic nets or produce straight building trusses so it can’t be eaten by mammals when it get to rivers or oceans.
How about globally they stop making plastic nets? Oh never mind..... that will never happen.
As long as we human are still alive there will be no solution
A millionn tons of ghostnets per year? Hard to believe....wikipedia says about 48,000 which seems a lot more reasonable. It's still a horrendous quantity, however...
The net must be reuse and must be recycle.
make a refuge that they can use as their homes till that one is empty or make a place you can take as many as possible to take them to save them
Protect Ocean
Would it be possible to show this video at the Lundy Marine Festival in July?
This Is just hopeless
Some people are absolute grubs. Should start dumping rubbish in the fishermens front yards.
Where to donate for that cause of net removal?
Great actors..what a great movie the a is..are they showing this on Netflix
And rewarded for bring in nets that dont belong to them but that they retrevie
Hi, could you, please put back and undo the private of Thalidomide: Still with us half a century later | DW Documentary I didn't finish watching it, please undo the private??
I heard it playing last night without realizing it was playing that on my other tab and now as I want to start re-watching it, I can't continue, please I haven't got a chance to continue to the end!?
Why don’t you get a life and stop whining about a documentary.
11:30 thats ruthless
I would be more worried about mustard agent lumps being pulled up in nets.
Looks like more than 60 birds die per year on those cliffs
Hmmm I believe GPS has been out
J3alous commercial fishermen also cut lines bc they dont want anyone in thier grid lines n the dfo is just as bad they cut the lines too
Good moning :)
Or maybe we should just ban plastic all for once?
It seems to be source of all problems
Then we have to ban gasoline. Plastic is a bit product of gasoline
@@carochan86 that sounds even easier. I’m in
Why cant the fishers use #Hemp Rope and nets like thy did for centuries ??
What can we do to stop this? STOP EATING FISH.
it should be responsibility of fishermen to pick these up.
Great inspiration for veganuary 💚
1 million tons go in to the ocean per year and it takes a whole lot of people, equipment and time to lift just one out. Honestly, what's the point?
🇧🇩🇿🇦 I'm a Proud of I'm Bangladeshi Citizens
Fisher Men made to account for all nets at leaving port and upon return only aloud sew many out and that sew many have to b accunted for when returned to port
I didn’t know that it was THIS bad! 🤭😟 It’s a bit tiresome seeing a majority of humans causing destruction and a minority trying to sort it out. So most fishing vessels overfish, destroy ecosystems and then pollute to top it off😐…talk about criminal activity. I hope we get more environmental laws and policing asap smh.
Shipping company need to be doing this lol
all those fishing company should be responsible for their own trash, not NGO ...... ??!!
This is a horrific problem not enough people are aware of. It is said that drowning is one of the most painful ways to die. That's why ISIS does it to people.
Save the 🐢!
We humans are so incredibly smart yet we cant see we are destroying our planet. We have created so many problems that i cant see a solution anymore to fix it. And that is making me very frustrated and angry. Everyday i go out with my dog and a backpack and pick up garbage. I clean up one street and the next day there s trash again. I keep doing it but i have little hope people will change. Im starting to think most dont give a damn.
I'm not good at catching trash at deep water if only someone made submarine just for trash at bottom