This year, you can follow the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries’ operation to retrieve lost fishing gear live during Nor-Fishing, 18–20 August.
Researchers in Dsolve estimate that lost and abandoned fishing gear captures over 500 tons of marine organisms each year. The study shows that both commercially important species and threatened anima…
A Dsolve research article estimates the amount of abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear in the Gulf of Riga and along coastal areas of the Baltic Sea. The findings show that thousands of nets an…
We have created a summary of the research publication 'Retrieval Operations of Derelict Fishing Gears Give Insight on the Impact on Marine Life'
SFI Dsolve was present at the annual ICES-meeting in the working group for «Fisheries Technology and Fish Behaviour» (WG FTFB) in St. John’s, Newfoundland 3.- 7. of June. WGFTFB is the largest work g…
A new study has been recently published in Marine Policy on estimation of amounts of abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) in Gulf of Riga and coastal areas of Latvia in collabo…
Twice a month over a period of six month, gillnets and traps are being monitored with the help of scuba diving gear in the Valun Bay, Medulin, Istra in Croatia. The project is lead by Dorian Vodopia,…
The recently initiated project aim to address sustainability challenges in snow crab fisheries, specifically focusing on challenges caused by lost fishing gear and plastic materials used in snow crab…
Ghost fishing from lost fishing gear is receiving increasing attention in research and innovation. SFI Dsolve has asked 900 Norwegian fishermen what they believe causes lost gear, and about their per…