Food & Beverage Reporter (Digital)

Food & Beverage Reporter (Digital)

1 Issue, June 2022

Fishermen unite for World Ocean Week And head out to sea to fish for… plastic.

Over 100 fishermen headed out to sea off Cape Town recently to reel in some of the ocean’s greatest scourge – plastic. In recognition of World Ocean’s Week, 20 boats took part in Africa’s first Plastic Fishing Tournament, covering over 30-square kilometres of the Atlantic Ocean and retrieving 300kg of plastic debris within three hours.
Fishermen unite for World Ocean Week And head out to sea to fish for… plastic.
The South African tournament is the African leg of similar Corona Plastic Fishing tournaments which have taken place in Mexico, China, Brazil, and Israel, where local fisher people competed to remove plastic debris from the ocean. They then returned their catches to plastic recycling centres and received compensation for their work. The initiative all builds on Corona’s longstanding commitment to cleaner oceans by raising awareness of the plastic crisis and finding ways to expand protection and preservation efforts from the beaches to the sea. Globally, Corona was joined by various other countries in marking World Oceans Day recently with awareness driven beach installations made from retrieved plastic, spelling out the message ‘Imagine a World Free of Plastic’ in their local languages. Current figures on marine plastic pollution are alarming. With up to…
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