Fishing for Energy, a partnership between Covanta Energy, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Debris Program, and Schnitzer Steel Industries, has been designed to provide fishermen a cost-free way to recycle old fishing gear.
Provincetown will use the grant to collect the gear at the port and send them to be stripped of metals for recycling with the help of Schnitzer Steel and processed into renewable energy at the Covanta Seconn Energy-from-Waste facility in Preston, Connecticut.
The grant extension will address marine environmental issue by enabling excess removal of gear out of the marine environment into the collection bins at the port, reducing the financial burden on the fishermen towards disposal and subsequent reduction of gears in the US coastal waters.
Provincetown harbormaster Rex McKinsey said that Provincetown is honored to be continuing its partnership with the Fishing for Energy partners and the Provincetown fishing fleet for this marine debris recovery and collection program.
“We will now be able to expand our efforts to known impacted areas with these new grant dollars,” McKinsey said.
