{"id":138479,"date":"2025-03-25T07:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T05:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/plastic-pollution-cuts-into-fishers-livelihoods-in-ecuador-and-peru\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T07:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T05:56:21","slug":"plastic-pollution-cuts-into-fishers-livelihoods-in-ecuador-and-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/plastic-pollution-cuts-into-fishers-livelihoods-in-ecuador-and-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic pollution cuts into fishers\u2019 livelihoods in Ecuador and Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138479\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water pumps get clogged with debris, and boats collide with bags of trash. Until recently, research on plastics in the oceans has focused on the impacts on biodiversity, but a group of scientists has now studied the economic losses suffered by artisanal fishers in Ecuador and Peru.<\/p>\n<p>About half the 1,349 fishers interviewed for the study in Ecuador and Peru said they had experienced incidents with plastic waste while fishing. Of these, 49% of Ecuadorian fishers and 34% of Peruvian fishers reported losses. For 2021 and 2022, the average loss per fisher was $569 in Ecuador and $669 in Peru. During the study period, the Ecuadorian artisanal fishing sector lost close to $84 million to plastic waste problems, while in Peru it was a nearly identical amount at $83 million dollars. These figures represent 0.84% and 0.78% respectively of Ecuador and Peru\u2019s gross domestic product from fisheries. Llerena noted that \u201cif we had data on the artisanal fishing sector alone, the percentage of loss would be much greater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that plastic waste from fishing gear was the most common type of problematic plastic in both countries. It accounted for 91% of incidents in Ecuador and 53% in Peru. The most commonly encountered items were plastic bags, representing 35% and 83% respectively in Ecuador and Peru. In Ecuador, plastic bottles and food packaging each accounted for 30% and 25%. In Peru, plastic bottles were involved in 10% of incidents and fishing nets 2%. Plastic fouling of propellers was the second most common incident in Peru (39.5%). In Ecuador, the main causes for entanglement were plastic bags (36%), fishing nets (26%) and ropes (21%), while in Peru they were plastic bags (82%), ropes (8.7%) and fishing nets (7.7%).<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2025\/03\/plastic-pollution-cuts-into-fishers-livelihoods-in-ecuador-and-peru\/\">Mongabay<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/5-691\/\">Plastic pollution cuts into fishers\u2019 livelihoods in Ecuador and Peru<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[4819,575,5533,759],"class_list":["post-138479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ecuador","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-peru","tag-plastic-pollution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}