Ghost Nets on King 5

[Salmonhawk]

Some great video of the ongoing destruction of ghosts nets. Another reason we need to quit harvesting fish this way.

http://www.king5.com/news/Finding-ghost ... 75144.html

[Jadeo]

So they didnt find any nets Im confused.

[Nelly]

So they didnt find any nets Im confused.

Here's a quote from the article:

"EPA divers can move more quickly and find the nets in less time, so they hope to locate as many as possible or at least rule out sites so the contractors don't waste time and money looking for them.

"Why take the risk? It's economics. Time is money on the water and with contractors looking out to here to pull up those nets, we don't want them spending all their time looking for those nets," said Sean Sheldrake with the EPA.

EPA divers spent the day searching in all the likely places near Whidbey Island where a net might snagged. Finding no nets, they eliminated some possible sites that would slow down the contractors and they came up safely. That's a success in the ghost net hunting business."

I have to agree. sometimes with a problem as vast and pervasive as ghost nets, often you first have to find where they ain't.

The EPA crew's mission was to document area and rule them out for the contractors who do the actual removal.

The whole issue is a mess and illustrates the wasteful, destructive nature of gillnetting in Puget Sound.

[Jadeo]

I was more questioning K5 running a half story than the lack of net finding. just would have liked to see the finnished product

[trophymac]

The story was more how this dive team could do it much faster than the the contractors dive teams. They did show ghost nest and what they could do.
It was amazing the amount of crab stuck in those suckers..

[Jadeo]

I have had the pleasure of dragging a news crew around for a whole day they have a nack for making a day of work look like nothing. I would realy apreciate a news story that gave some metrics this project has cleaned hundreds of acres of bottom .