Are French fishermen really dumping old nets overboard ?

[peter60]

We cruise on the North Brittany coast and around the channel Islands. I have seen on several occasions whole tangle nets. gill nets a trawlnet.empty 25litee oil cans and god only knows howmany pot markers with floating rope attached. You may moan all you like and tell who you like about this but in the end it down to the morals of the skippers. If they see the oceans as a sorce of income and only that they dont care. Sisal is no longer used as it is much more expensive than modern fibres and not as efficient. Although it may be ilegal my attidude to the problem is if you see a danger you have a responsability to other sea going people to remove the danger. while on this point why dont container makers put a simple hydrostatic vent in them which would sink them straight away when lost overboard reason: COST so look out the big money people will kill you one day