{"id":55708,"date":"2020-11-04T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T13:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?p=55708"},"modified":"2020-11-24T10:01:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T11:01:23","slug":"entanglement-luckily-not-so-frequent-in-our-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/entanglement-luckily-not-so-frequent-in-our-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Entanglement, luckily not so frequent in our tours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During our whale watching and swimming with dolphins\u2019 tours quite often, we find rubbish floating on the ocean. We usually try to collect it and bring it back to shore. Is the least we can do! Among the most common items, we usually find rests of fishing gear and plastics. However, sometimes we get really surprised with the kind of trash we collect: hundreds of meters of fishing rope or even a fridge! How can this be possible? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This issue gains worldwide importance, especially if you think about all the consequences that it may have on the ecosystems, and thus in our lives. Although is a topic more than exploited, never forget that all the plastic that we have ever created is still around. And some of this plastic is in our oceans, some of it is breaking down in tiny pieces that will be there our entire life… However, some of the pieces they don\u2019t need to degrade to cause harm to wildlife; and the same happen with fishing gear. We are talking about entanglement, i.e. when an animal becomes caught in something such as a net or ropes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n