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points by _heimdall 2 days ago | 0 comments

Most of the comments here mention divers, I would have expected thus to be focused on fishing. When I lived on the gulf coasts there were quite a few sunken ships marked as common fishing spots.

[–] manarth 1 day ago

Probably less useful for large-scale commercial fishers, due to the risk of the net(s) snagging on the ship.

[–] nradov 1 day ago

In some areas a lot of nets and other fishing tackle ends up snagging on shipwrecks. This "ghost fishing" gear still ends up killing a lot of marine life. The Ghost Diving Foundation has been cleaning that up but it's a slow and expensive process.

https://www.ghostdiving.org/

[–] _heimdall 1 day ago

I never saw anyone fishing with nets at least in the area of the gulf coast I was at (around the Florida pan handle).

Its all deep sea fishing around there, you drop a line near the artificial reefs looking for bottom feeders.