Lots of plastic trash is filling the worlds oceans, a EU official has come up with the idea to pay fisherman to catch trash rather than fish. The EU fisheries chief has been under fire for the plan of banning the discarding edible fish. Up to 2/3 of fish is discarded for different reasons, such as throwing back less valuable fish. Many fishermen object to this, but the fisheries chief is going ahead with the ban, while still providing fishermen with more income by taking trash out of the ocean. I feel that this is a very good idea. It gets people to clean up our oceans, and provides them with more income. Hopefully more places will try ideas like this and make our oceans cleaner.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/05/eu-pay-fishermen-catch-plastic-trash.php
I think that this is a great idea as well. It is a good way to start improving our environment. The ocean covers most of the earth which is why I think that this is a really great thing to be doing. If things like this happened in more places, it could have a huge impact on the world. It is never to late to start helping out the environment and benefiting everyone and all living things on the earth.
ReplyDeleteI agree, this is a great idea if enough people take advantage of the opportunity. Not only will it help to clean up the environment but it will also create more jobs that we otherwise would not have. I would like to know though where the money will be coming from to pay the fishermen?
ReplyDeleteI think thats a great idea, it would create more jobs for everybody. They really need to start doing it so theres less trash in the ocean and more people have jobs.
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