Strandloper Project hunts down Dirty Dozen in the Garden Route.
They are everywhere. In parks, along the beach, in the dunes and lining forest paths. Trash has become an everyday sighting. In a country that boasts robust and healthy wildlife […]
Category Archives: Ghost fishing
Strandloper Project – Establishing a preseason Baseline of snagged fishing tackle at Gericke’s Point.
In the second half of December 2018 we conducted a dive to remove snagged fishing tackle from a transect on the eastern reef at Gericke’s Point. The primary purpose of […]
Strandloper Project takes on Ghost fishing and marine plastics in the Garden Route.
The seemingly harmless simplicity of snagged fishing tackle on a reef at Gericke Point near Sedgefield in the Garden Route. Snagged hooks like this, with fresh bait still on, pose […]
Changing fishing habits to reduce Ghost Fishing
Internationally there is mounting pressure to ban plastics to save our oceans. While the emphasis is to pressure producers and retailers to wean their production and packaging from plastics, it […]
Cleaning the reef one hook at a time.
In December, snorkeling along the reef ledge at Gericke’s Point, the clumps of snagged fishing tackle struck a discord. In an instant, instead of searching for seasonal tropical fish that […]
