FINAL BRIEF
RESEARCH
1.Secondary Online Research
2.Primary Research
USER MODELING
IDEATION
RESEARCH
ROUGH RESEARCH
However, every year, the number of plastic bags consumed worldwide is 500 billion; every minute, 1 million plastic bottles are sold globally; most plastic products are discarded in the natural environment and eventually flow into the ocean. According to United Nations data, it is estimated that at least 8 million tons of plastic products leak into the ocean every year, which is equivalent to an average of one truckload of plastic garbage being dumped into the sea every second, which has a serious impact on marine life, fisheries, and tourism. The loss amounted to 8 billion dollars. One million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals die every year due to plastic pollution. Plastic will be broken down into tiny pieces, which will then be ingested by plankton, and ultimately affect the food chain and the composition of food in human plates.
1.The first concern —— Ocean Decade Actions
This event will be a phased action to solicit global partners and provide them with numerous opportunities to develop or support new programs.
Measure 1：Other project and organization
Food and Agriculture Organization &International Maritime Organization
This action will include encouraging the marking of fishing gear so that it can be tracked when lost or discarded at sea. Another important point is the availability and adequacy of port reception facilities and their connection to the national waste management system.
Project : GloLitter Partnerships Project
The project aims to reduce the use of plastics in these industries and identify opportunities for recycling plastics to better protect the fragile marine environment and people’s lives and livelihoods and it will help marine transportation and fisheries sectors promote best practices to prevent and reduce marine plastic waste, including lost or discarded fishing gear, to protect coastal and global marine resources.
https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/PartnershipsProjects/Pages/GloLitter-Partnerships-Project-.aspx
2.The second concern —— COVID-19
With the surge in the use of disposable masks, gloves and other protective equipment, the fight against plastic pollution is being hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, but UN agencies and partners insist that if effective measures are taken, the amount of discarded plastic will be reduced It can be drastically reduced or even eliminated every year.
01.A report about —— Five things you should know about disposable masks and plastic pollution
02.A video about Philippines
UPDATE RESEARCH
FISHERY POLLUTION
Join the community
I joined the school’s marine club and learned that they would conduct a marine cleanup activity once every three weeks.
In previous surveys, I have always directed the research direction to our most common plastic pollution, which includes all plastic products. However, in the latest round of research, I learned about the effects of different plastic products on the ocean. To conduct a new round of research on hazards, in which I took fishing nets and fishing gear as my research direction, and in the process of research, I learned about another direction and became very interested in it——the harm caused by fisheries to the ocean.
1.The harm caused by fishing nets and fishing gear to the ocea
Ghost gear can entangle marine mammals, seabirds, and turtles causing a slow and painful death through suffocation or exhaustion
2.There are six types of fishing methods and gears commonly used by fishermen.
TRAWING
Trawl fishing is the most common method of fishing, but this method is the most harmful way to the ocean. It not only caused overfishing, but also severely damaged the seabed to a certain extent. Submarine trawl is equivalent to levelling a football field.
Seaspiracy——A Netflix Original Documentary
The director is called Ali Tabrizi and this documentary originally wanted to make a marine documentary, but in the process of filming, he discovered some things he didn’t know before. He thought that marine pollution was largely caused by plastics and other products. After investigation, He found that fishing gear is a very large source of pollution, but many related environmental protection organizations have never exposed it. So he turned to the investigation of so-called environmental protection organizations and found that these organizations and fisheries organizations are inextricably linked.This documentary reveals to us some protection points for the ocean that are usually ignored, some the dark side of the capital world that we don’t usually see.
1.46% of marine garbage is made up of discarded fishing nets. Compared with the plastic products we use daily, this kind of garbage dumps is more harmful to the ocean.
2.Traces of fishing gear can be found even in the most remote waters on the earth, and the length of the trawl fishing line circumnavigates the earth 500 times in one day.
3.The pollution caused by commercial fishing activities is far more serious than plastic pollution, and its damage is greater than the pollution caused by oil spills at sea.
4.Therefore, we have always believed that plastic pollution is the biggest problem of marine pollution, but the fishing gear and nets floating in the ocean are the deeper problems.
The director’s point of view and appeal on the issue of the harm caused by fisheries to the ocean in the documentary is not to eat fish. But this view cannot be realized, so I still focus my attention on the marine pollution caused by fishing gear.
Analysis
This data analysis is mainly in two directions. One is the plastic pollution problem that we are always concerned about, and the other is the fishery pollution problem that is neglected. During the first analysis of the data, I found that I and the public are concerned about the same direction.That plastic is the cause of marine pollution.
So in the following analysis, I chose the neglected direction, which is the pollution and harm caused by fishery.
IDEATION
Second attempt-photography
PHOTOGRAPY
Photographic picture secondary processing
FINAL OUTCOME
POSTER
VIDEO
REFERENCE:
- chinadialogue ocean. 2021. 海洋塑料污染之忧. [online] Available at: <https://chinadialogueocean.net/14200-how-does-plastic-pollution-affect-the-ocean/?lang=zh-hans> [Accessed 13 December 2021].
- Block, I., 2021. Four technologies tackling the problem of river plastic pollution. [online] Dezeen. Available at: <https://www.dezeen.com/2019/11/29/river-plastic-pollution-technology/> [Accessed 13 December 2021].
- UN News. 2021. Five things you should know about disposable masks and plastic pollution. [online] Available at: <https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/07/1069151> [Accessed 13 December 2021].
- Bilibili.com. 2021. [online] Available at: <https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1CK4y1272s/?spm_id_from=333.788.videocard.0> [Accessed 13 December 2021].
- Sohu.com. 2021. 废弃渔网危害环境 芬兰展开回收计划_海床. [online] Available at: <https://www.sohu.com/a/361378586_100063343> [Accessed 13 December 2021].
- Plastic@Bay. 2021. How do we stop fishing gear ending up in the ocean?. [online] Available at: <https://www.plasticatbay.org/2021/02/24/how-do-we-stop-fishing-gear-ending-up-in-the-ocean/?v=79cba1185463> [Accessed 13 December 2021].