Brochure - Trawl Net Recycling

Commercial fisherman should recycle their trawl nets:

• to reduce storage and disposal costs
• reduce solid waste in landfills, and costly dealys if nets are entangled in equipment
• because lost nets and other debris can smother and crush sensitive ecosystems and bottom-dwelling species
• because fishing nets and line can entangle, maim or drown wildlife species

See the brochure - Fisherman's Terminal - Trawl Net Recycling, for more information about this program begun April 2008. (press release)

Source: Port of Seattle