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Reply #16: Call me crazy, but . . . why not pay fishing fleets to go out and harvest plastic? [View All]

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hatrack

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Wed May-13-09 11:26 AM
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16. Call me crazy, but . . . why not pay fishing fleets to go out and harvest plastic?

Since it would likely take a year or six or ten to make a serious dent, it could take at least some of the pressure off of crashing stocks, since the key proviso would be that fishing operations getting paid to clean up plastic could NOT fish during the time they'd be under contract.

This would be especially true in light of massive global fleet overcapacity.

But then, that might make way too much sense, and gosh, where would we possibly find the money?

:eyes:

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