REPORT CALIFORNIA LOST GEAR
Fill out the form below or call 1-888-491-GEAR to report lost gear in California. Lost gear in Washington can be reported on the Northwest Straits Initiative website.
MORE INFO AND REPORT LINK https://www.seadocsociety.org/californi ... l-project/
Data collected between May 2006 to November 2012 shows the California Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project retrieved more than 100 tons of gear from California's coastal ocean, primarily in Southern California and including around the California Channel Islands (Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa and Santa Catalina).
As well, the project has cleaned more than 1400 pounds of recreational fishing gear off public fishing piers from Santa Cruz to Imperial Beach including more than 1 million feet of fishing line. Several of these piers now have fishing line recycling bins, to encourage proper disposal of unwanted hooks and microfilament.
And although the debris was not fishing gear, in May 2010 the project removed 650 discarded toilets and automobile tires weighing almost 20 tons from a rocky reef off Pt. Dume, Malibu. This was an area under consideration by the State of California for special designation as a Marine Protected Area in large part because of the large reef it encompasses. SeaDoc and the Department of Fish and Wildlife were keen to restore as much of the reef to more pristine conditions as possible.
Currently, with mitigation monies transferred from the California Coastal Commission, the California Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project is continuing to help reduce the potential impact of lost fishing gear and marine debris on living marine resources and underwater habitat
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