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EL PAIS, May 9th 2011.

With an original iniciative, European Union Commissioner for Fishing, Maria Damanaki, proposes to get two objectives at once by paying fishermen for fishing plastic instead of fish. Given the fact that our oceans are dangerously overfished, and the Mediterranean Sea in particular (see the documentary The End of the Line”), and that fishermen are out of business during the recovery season, fishing plastic garbage would both mean an income for the fishermen and a benefit for society. Recently a French-Belgium study estimated in 250.000 million the number of small plastic objects floating in the Mediterranean and in about 500 tons the plastic dissolved in the waves already. The capture plastic objects are recyclable and, in turn, a source of business.
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