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    Observations to action: Research to global campaign - Ghost gear impacts and grey seals in the SW UK Sue Sayer Cornwall Seal Group E: ssayer@suesseals.eclipse.co.uk www.cornwallsealgroup.co.uk Cornwall Seal Group (CSG) volunteers have been recording entangled seals since 2000 and published data on their findings up to 2010 in the Marine Pollution Bulletin (2012). This attracted the attention of World Animal Protection who were planning a global Sea Change Campaign (SCC) tackling ghost fishing gear. World Animal Protection’s CSS is bringing together governments, businesses and fishing organisations to protect sea life and move towards a future free from the threat of ghost fishing gear. Their strategy has three strands – bringing together partners to stop gear being abandoned, supporting new ways to remove ghost gear and replicating successful local sea animal rescue efforts on a global scale. World Animal Protection commissioned CSG to undertake two projects – to update and report on all their seal entanglement data to 2014 and to undertake boat and land based ghost gear surveys. The first will form part of a major World Animal Protection report on entanglement out in June 2015. CSG’s first three months of ghost gear surveys are now complete. Sue Sayer, Bex Allen and Kate Williams will summarise these and the contribution they make to World Animal Protection’s global campaign.

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    Observations to action: Research to global campaign - Ghost gear impacts and grey seals in the SW UK Sue Sayer Cornwall Seal Group E: ssayer@suesseals.eclipse.co.uk www.cornwallsealgroup.co.uk Cornwall Seal Group (CSG) volunteers have been recording entangled seals since 2000 and published data on their findings up to 2010 in the Marine Pollution Bulletin (2012). This attracted the attention of World Animal Protection who were planning a global Sea Change Campaign (SCC) tackling ghost fishing gear. World Animal Protection’s CSS is bringing together governments, businesses and fishing organisations to protect sea life and move towards a future free from the threat of ghost fishing gear. Their strategy has three strands – bringing together partners to stop gear being abandoned, supporting new ways to remove ghost gear and replicating successful local sea animal rescue efforts on a global scale. World Animal Protection commissioned CSG to undertake two projects – to update and report on all their seal entanglement data to 2014 and to undertake boat and land based ghost gear surveys. The first will form part of a major World Animal Protection report on entanglement out in June 2015. CSG’s first three months of ghost gear surveys are now complete. Sue Sayer, Bex Allen and Kate Williams will summarise these and the contribution they make to World Animal Protection’s global campaign.

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    Sue Sayer & Bex Allen 2015 Seals & Net Entanglement

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    Observations to action: Research to global campaign - Ghost gear impacts and grey seals in the SW UK Sue Sayer Cornwall Seal Group E: ssayer@suesseals.eclipse.co.uk www.cornwallsealgroup.co.uk Cornwall Seal Group (CSG) volunteers have been recording entangled seals since 2000 and published data on their findings up to 2010 in the Marine Pollution Bulletin (2012). This attracted the attention of World Animal Protection who were planning a global Sea Change Campaign (SCC) tackling ghost fishing gear. World Animal Protection’s CSS is bringing together governments, businesses and fishing organisations to protect sea life and move towards a future free from the threat of ghost fishing gear. Their strategy has three strands – bringing together partners to stop gear being abandoned, supporting new ways to remove ghost gear and replicating successful local sea animal rescue efforts on a global scale. World Animal Protection commissioned CSG to undertake two projects – to update and report on all their seal entanglement data to 2014 and to undertake boat and land based ghost gear surveys. The first will form part of a major World Animal Protection report on entanglement out in June 2015. CSG’s first three months of ghost gear surveys are now complete. Sue Sayer, Bex Allen and Kate Williams will summarise these and the contribution they make to World Animal Protection’s global campaign.

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    Photos Sue Sayer; Dave McBride ; Terry Thirlaway; Bex Allen monofilament net and line.

    Allen et al 2010

    Photos Sue Sayer multifilament net

    Photos by Bex Allen and Terry Hocking

    266 in 2010 for same areas


    VII e and f Cornish inshore waters: 246 in 2013 alone!

    Photo Charles Hood grey seal trapped in keep cage

    Photos John Hepburn trawl net over wave cut platform (2009) and along strand line (2008)

    Photos John Meakin Port Nadler

    Photos Alec and


    Enid Farr and
    Peter Welsh

    Photo Newquay Beachcombing

    Photos Rob Wells , Kate Williams and


    Claire Wallerstein

    Photos Rob Wells, Tracey Williams, Claire Wallerstein

    Photos Newquay Sea Safaris, Terry Hocking, Fairygirl and Mike Stephens,

    Photos Lydia Forrester and Sue Sayer: Iron Man

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