Breaking strength evaluation of biodegradable twines to reduce ghost fishing in the pot and trap fisheries of Chile

Retrieval Operations of Derelict Fishing Gears Give Insight on the Impact on Marine Life

“…The estimated time to failure for a 96-thread cotton string (5 mm, 115.2 kg initial breaking strength) is 182 days (Winger et al, 2015). Twisted cotton strings (2.5-5.0 mm thickness, 16.6 kg -39.3 kg initial breaking strength) demonstrated a degradation time ranging from 68 to 234 days, while braided cotton strings (2.0-5.2 mm thickness, 11.8 kg -42.4 kg initial breaking strength) exhibited a span of 108 to 205 days (Araya Schmidt and Queirolo, 2019). According to Kimker (1990), the mean time to failure falls between 89 and 107 days, depending on the thread count.…”

Sea of plastic: representations of the sea and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors regarding marine plastic pollution in Peru and Chile

“…In those lines, the most common products found on these coasts are single-use plastics such as bottles and plastic bags ( Gómez et al, 2020 ; De-la-Torre et al, 2021 ). Studies in Peru and Chile have reported that part of the plastic pollution comes from economic activities such as fishing, since the greatest polluting source is abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear ( Araya-Schmidt and Queirolo, 2019 ; Deville et al, 2023 ). Lost gear traps and attracts different animals, which can lead to their death and the continuation of a cycle of entanglement ( Ryan, 2018 ), and disperse invasive species altering the marine ecosystem ( Ferrigno et al, 2018 ).…”