Ocean Sentry
(From Cayman”s National Newpaper) Conservationists are beginning campaigns to convince fishermen to retrieve fishing lines and hooks that can injure or kill wildlife that get entangled or caught in the discarded equipment.
Cayman Wildlife Rescue, in association with the Department of Environment, will begin a poster campaign this month featuring disturbing photographs of turtles hopelessly entangled in plastic fishing lines or caught on steel hooks.
Posters will be placed at fishing stores and marinas in an attempt to educate fishermen, both professional and recreational, of the detrimental effect careless discarding of fishing equipment has on turtles, crabs, birds and fish.
Alison Corbett of Cayman Wildlife Rescue, who is spearheading the campaign, said: “Fishermen need to watch for dropped lines and basically clean up after themselves, and reclaim hooks and lines.”
