What are the #FishingForLitter schemes? @BordIascMhara & the fishers from the County of Cork tell us more about the initiative!
"Promoting Fishing for Litter activities & use of EMFAF support" event starts tomorrow at 9 am. Watch it LIVE ๐ https://bit.ly/3BTo6pw
#EUfish4litter
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Fishers are of great support in the fight against #marinelitter.
With help from #EMFF ๐ช๐บ, @BordIascMhara ๐ฎ๐ช implemented #FishingForLitter, a collective action helping retrieve marine litter ashore. Since 2015 fishers collected 330 tons of waste at sea!
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Our oceans & seas are essential for our life on earth but are under growing threat from plastic waste.
Since 2015 ๐ฎ๐ชfishermen have been taking ashore the litter they encounter at sea under the #FishingforLitter scheme led by @BordIascMhara & funded by #EMFF๐ช๐บ.
#WorldOceansDay๐
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Our oceans & seas are essential for our life on earth but are under growing threat from plastic waste. Since 2015 ๐ฎ๐ชfishermen have been taking ashore the litter they encounter at sea under the #FishingforLitter scheme led by @BordIascMhara & funded by #EMFF๐ช๐บ. #WorldOceansDay๐
RT @CleanSeaLIFE: ๐ฅ Great news for #OurOcean: #fishingforlitter becomes law in ๐ฎ๐น today!!!!
@CleanSeaLIFE worked years in ports, City halls and Parliament to test and promote the #Salvamare law. against #marinelitter. Celebrate ๐ฅ& pls vote for us at the #LIFEAwards22 ๐https://www.lifeawards.eu/project/clean-sea-life/
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Clean Sea LIFE was an awareness-raising project that reduced marine litter along Italian coasts. The team involved 170 000 citizens and fishers who removed 112 tonnes of waste from the Mediterranean. The campaign reached around 34 million people on social media and national television. Their work inspired new Italian legislation to reduce and prevent marine [โฆ]
EU Maritime & Fish
EU Commission in Ireland