Marine clean-up requires coast-wide cooperation: report

By Jeremy Hainsworth / Glacier Media
Some 1,400 derelict boats litter shorelines

Cleaning up B.C’s abandoned vessels and marine debris will take coast-wide cooperation to be effective, says a report released Feb. 5 by Sheila Malcolmson, parliamentary secretary for the environment. Consultation participants who met with Malcolmson suggested that the province support development of ship-breaking and recycling businesses in coastal communities as well as improving plastic and battery recycling and garbage disposal options at small craft harbours; more options for disposal for gear found on beaches; and more options for fishers who have retrieved lost gear offshore to dispose of or recycle it.…

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February 5, 2020

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