ast year Inland Fisheries Ireland confiscated a whopping 14.7 km of illegal fishing nets – that’s enough net to stretch from Leinster House to Dublin Airport. One net alone confiscated last June in Mayo was 900m long, twice the length of Grafton Street. Nets like these decimate fish populations and have a destructive impact on other marine life…
Coast Monkey, 25/01/17. Read the full article ‘Net Losses | Over 14km of illegal fishing net seized last year‘.
