"Turning the Tide on Ocean Plastic" - An evening with Fishing for Litter and the Scottish Entanglement Alliance
Tonight's presentation is a series of short documentaries about Marine life in collaboration with the Sleat Marine Litter Weekend on Sunday July 27th at An Crubh. We are excited to have marine biologist and local resident, Dan Milner, along with representatives from the organisations: Fishing for Litter and Scottish Entanglement Alliance have offered to lead a Q & A session after watching the films.
Our first film: A Plastic Whale tells the story of "A stranded Cuvier's beaked whale feeds far out to sea at depths of a mile or more - and yet one died with dozens of plastic bags in its stomach. This has a message for us: we need to act. Our household rubbish is polluting every single part of our oceans, at every possible depth. And it is killing our marine life. The animal, which stranded near Bergen, Norway, had mistaken so many bags for food that its stomach was stuffed with plastic. This is not the first animal to die because of widespread plastic pollution - and it won't be the last." - Thomas Moore, Science Correspondent for Sky News. (46 mins)
Our second short: The Creel Deal - A win-win for fisherman & Whales was made locally by Andy Crabb and highlights another aspect of humans and nature working together. (10 mins)
The Third Short is a stunning but brutal video by @jamesappletonphotography of the sperm whale entanglement and subsequent stranding and necropsy on the Isle of Raasay in late February of this year. Warning*** Graphic Content (5 mins)