25 Temmuz 2022 Pazartesi

Massacre by 10,000 "Ghost Nets" in Lake Hirfanlı

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 25 July 2022)














         Whatever happened to hook, line and sinker?

Teams from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests Fisheries and 
Maritime Products General Directorate have retrieved 10,000 "ghost
nets" from Lake Hirfanlı, located between Ankara and Kırşehir.  
Thousands of creatures were found dead in the nets.  

Director Altuğ Atalay explained that fishermen at the lake assisted his
teams, adding that "we expected to retrieve 300-400 nets from a lake
of this size, but finding 10,000 means that the entire floor of the lake
was covered with these nets.  We are clearing lakes of these nets all
over the country because they are so harmful to our economy and to the
creatures living in the lakes.  So far we have cleared 545,000 square
meters of  these nets.  With the 10,000 from Lake Hirfanlı, the total
number of "ghost nets" retrieved has reached 25,000.  We estimate 
that by doing this we have saved at least 1.7 million creatures from 
death. In the Sea of Marmara, we are clearing "ghost nets" covered 
with "müsilaj" (gunk) in many places, as well."







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