{"id":247090,"date":"2023-06-08T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=247090"},"modified":"2023-06-08T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T14:42:07","slug":"a-ghostly-tale-for-world-oceans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-ghostly-tale-for-world-oceans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ghostly Tale For World Oceans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201c A Ghostly Tale For World Oceans Day ” published<\/strong> in \u201cThe Times of India\u201d <\/strong>on 8th june 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3 – Environment Pollution<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: Issues related to Marine life<\/p>\n

News- <\/strong>The article highlights the importance of ocean health and conservation of marine life on World Ocean Day.<\/p>\n

What are the issues related to oceans?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The FAO report <\/strong>indicates 30% of the world\u2019s ocean stocks are over-exploited<\/strong>, depleted or recovering from depletion caused by various factors. These factors are overfishing, by-catch of species caught in fishing gears, climate change, marine debris etc.<\/p>\n

Every year an estimated 8 million tonnes of plastic waste<\/strong> end up in the oceans.<\/p>\n

Abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear commonly is referred to as \u2018ghost gear\u2019. <\/strong>It accounts for roughly 10%<\/strong> of all marine debris accumulating in our marine environment<\/p>\n

What are the problems created by ghost gear?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ghost gear is a threat to biodiversity and marine habitats,<\/strong> especially corals and endangered species like sharks, turtles and dugongs.<\/p>\n

Ghost gear also causes increased operational costs<\/strong> for boat owners. Lost gear is a hazard to boat navigation and safety at sea.<\/p>\n

Significant costs are incurred to remove entangled gear from propellers or engines. Entangled gear causes breakdowns leading to costs of repair and rescue<\/strong>, and loss of fuel.<\/p>\n

What are the solutions in this regard?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ocean clean-ups<\/strong> can remove ghost gear. It is all-important to have strategies at landing centres and fishing harbours to prevent ghost-gear pollution.<\/p>\n

Governments, companies and gear manufacturers should incentivise \u2013 by money or discounts<\/strong> and access facilities \u2013 fishers to return used and damaged fishing gear.<\/p>\n

Fishing gears collected should be part of a \u2018circular economy<\/strong>\u2019 for recycling or upcycling, transformed into art, ornaments or sports nets among other useful things.<\/p>\n

Eliminating ghost gear from the ocean requires commitment, cooperation and innovation<\/strong> at every level throughout the fishing-gear supply chain<\/p>\n

There is a need to spread awareness among fishers by training local communities <\/strong>in upcycling ghost nets.<\/p>\n

An untapped potential of ghost gear creates new business opportunities and additional sources <\/strong>of income for marginalized fishing communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201c A Ghostly Tale For World Oceans Day ” published in \u201cThe Times of India\u201d on 8th june 2023. Syllabus: GS3 – Environment Pollution Relevance: Issues related to Marine life News- The article highlights the importance of ocean health and conservation of marine life on World Ocean… Continue reading A Ghostly Tale For World Oceans Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-247090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703375522},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}