Litter on our beaches can you help?

[snacko]

I have been requested to help with this report, I am sure it does not affect our club fishermen, if you can help then PLEASE do......Thanks!

Re the following report from Marine Conservation Society (MCS):

Wales
A total of 49,473 litter items were collected on 56 beaches over a total length of 19.40 km. On average 2,549.9 items of litter /km were found, higher than the UK average (2,195/km), a slight decrease of 3.95% in density levels when compared to 2007 (2,654.8/km).

Public litter was the main source of litter recorded on beaches surveyed in Wales with a density of 816.9 items/km surveyed.
The second most common source of litter in Wales was fishing with a density of 462.9 items/km, much higher than the UK average (302.8/km) and the highest density of fishing litter for any EU country. SRD was the third biggest source of litter in Wales (94.1/km) followed by shipping litter with a density of 40.3/km. Can you help with the Fishing Litter Problem regarding
your contacts in fishing.

I would find it difficult to really publicise this issue on the Celtic Ocean website (other than urging people to take their litter home) as much as Iwant to, because it could be perceived as damaging to the tourist industry.

A full report from MSC is below.

With your contacts in fishing can you help?

Regards

Barrie

[robinstall]

It would be good if we could have a break-down of
fishing material found, we could at least segregate commercial from public and then put a notice up on the club wall asking
for a more responsible approach to getting rid of our litter.