Around 1,400 seals are killed by discarded fishing gear and because of people throwing away fishing lines irresponsibly. This is unacceptable and must be stopped immediately.

Zoos Victoria wants to put up fishing disposal boxes near fishing places so that people can safely dispose of fishing gear safely.

And it’s not only seals being killed. Seagulls and other marine life are being affected quite a lot by people throwing away fishing gear into everywhere but the bins. Wildlife in marine and aquatic environments are impacted by dangers such as entanglement caused by discarded fishing line and other materials.

Did you know that globally 100,000 sea animals, including seals, is killed due to plastic pollution? This is unacceptable and MUST be stopped.

Thus far, there have been about over 300 bins for fishing lines set up in places where fishing takes place, but there clearly have to be much more of them to safe these poor seals from a preventable and unnecessary death.