“Everything you can think of that is metallic is in the water. Tell me anything, we released it, ”
challenges Didier Hau, president of L'Aimant dunkerquois.
Bicycles, scooters, carcasses of cars, construction barriers, caddies, safes ... Created in 2018, his association has already recovered 58 tonnes of waste in the port of Dunkirk (North) and the rivers of the region.
Successful bet: the waters are getting cleaner and the fishermen cling less.
A treasure hunt for some, a civic act and river pollution control for others, magnet fishing consists of fishing out metallic objects in rivers using a neodymium magnet firmly attached to the end of a rope.
The adhesive force of the magnet varies from 50 kg to more than a ton.
While some magnet fishermen deliver or resell their finds to a scrap dealer, others call on municipal services, which are sometimes overloaded.
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