In a unusual scheme,fishermen are paid €200 a month to recycle waste found in nets rather than dump it in polluted waters
The fish market at Keratsini comes alive at night. Under floodlights, crews in rubber waders and boots wash down the decks of boats moored in the harbour, and repair nets dangling from cranes,and put on ice the shrimp, calamari, and mullet and hake that are their latest pickings.
Recently other things – objects that might never have been pulled from the sea have also supplemented hauls. “We’re talking approximately lots of waste,lots of rubbish,” says Dimitris Dalianis. “We’re finding it almost everywhere.”“I’ve found washing machines, or model planes,dolls and hundreds of bottles. Some days we find more plastic than fish”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com