How Yemenis catch fish with scrap reefs using plastic and tires

How Yemenis catch fish with scrap reefs using plastic and tires

By Shubhangi Dua

Source: interestingengineering

7/19/2024

Credit: Sergey Strelkov / iStock

Artificial reefs have become the talk of the town. If you’ve heard of the “best-out-of-waste” concept, these reefs are an ideal example of it that aims to contribute to a sustainable environment.

These are man-made structures that are positioned in the ocean to imitate actual ocean reefs. The traditional role of ocean reefs is to protect coastlines from storms and erosion in addition to also regulating carbon dioxide levels in the ocean.

Recently, fisher people in Yemen have been creatively devising ways to make artificial reefs to tackle the decline in fish populations as a consequence of overfishing and environmental degradation.

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