Fisherman’s Underwater Sculptures Have Stopped Illegal Trawling In Italy
Little did Paolo Fanciulli know that when he would drop 39 large marble sculptures down to the bottom of the sea, not only would he be stopping illegal trawling but also his first step into the art world. The 60-year-old practices sustainable fishing and “pescaturismo” or fishing tourism at his village of Talamone. He wakes up at dawn and heads of with his colleague, Francesco to fish. They cast shallow nets which leave the bottom of the seabed’s untouched. From 2002-2005, he gathered the help of the Tuscan government and WWF-Italia to deploy a strategic formation of 126 underwater cement bollards to ruin any of the deep-sea trawling nets which he realised were rapidly destroying the fish stocks he […]
