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Hemmick Beach - St Austell

Writer's picture: Zillah Robertson Zillah Robertson

21/4/19 - We had planned a training dive today but unfortunately had a technical hitch with our boat, so not wanting to miss out on the opportunity of getting outdoors, enjoying the lovely Cornish weather and looking for some marine litter, we headed to Hemmick beach near St Austell and did a Paddle for Plastic with kayaks on loan from Odyssey Innovation Ltd. Rob and Nat headed west along the coastline and collected mostly fishing debris, including buoys, a broken lobster pot and a tangled lump of gill net, found on the rocks. The kayaks really are invaluable and can get to inaccessible areas of coastline where there’s always marine litter to be found.

Two seals were also seen checking out the kayaks!

Thanks to support from World Animal Protection UK Morrisons Ocean Recovery Project BeachCare Keep Britain Tidy Palm Equipment Islander Kayaks #ghostgear





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Fathoms Free is a group of volunteer divers who protect marine wildlife and the environment for everyone's benefit by removing ALDFG (abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear) and other marine debris from the coastal waters of Cornwall and Devon.

ALDFG is also known as ghost gear or ghost fishing gear, as it continues to "fish," entangling, trapping, and killing wildlife indiscriminately. These trapped animals will die and act as bait, attracting more wildlife in a vicious cycle of death until the ghost gear is removed from the environment.

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UK charity number 1192613

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