Waterhaul x Behaviour Change Cornwall
Eyewear strap traceability
We've partnered with Behaviour Change Cornwall to create adjustable sunglasses and glasses retainer straps, using recycled fishing nets collected from across the coast of Cornwall.
Strap recovery data
On each strap are stainless steel beads engraved with a batch number, allowing you to track exactly where and when the fishing gear used to create your eyewear strap was recovered.
Batch 006 - Loe Bar
Date: 07/02/2024
Method: Large and mauled tangle of nets, cut and hauled in sections by pickup and reloaded into the van.
Associated finds: At least 15 separate net types, several sections of each, in one large knot buried in the shingle. Weighed in smaller sections, total cumulative weight 3.4 tonnes.
Net origin: Tags associated with Newlyn.
Batch 005 - Polkerris, St Austell
Date: 07/02/2024
Method: Large and intact drift gill net. Cut into sections and taken to the warehouse via van.
Associated finds: Orange and green braided twine wrapped around multicoloured rope and floats, attached to 450kg net weight of cyan gill net.
Net origin: Mevagissey via St Austell Bay.
Batch 004 - Looe
Date: 21/12/2023
Method: Reported via social media. Large anchor rope, 12m length x 200mm diameter. Floated via kayaks to the warehouse.
Associated finds: Around 200m of HDPE braided twine (pure yellow) wrapped around 14.7kg of PP twist (pure yellow) internal rope core, plus 18kg dry of rough external cotton/PP twist mix (assorted colours).
Net origin: Unknown.
Batch 003 - Porthleven
Date: 31/03/2023
Method: 2m x 10m light trawl net reported via social media. Dug out of the sand by hand and kept intact to be transported.
Associated finds: Fixing twine (black), blue jerry cans, grey and black lobster traps, and a crate segment stamped Newlyn.
Net origin: Presumed Newlyn Port, based on the fish crate.
Batch 002 - Kynance Cove
Date: 08/01/2021
Method: At low tide, climbed to cut a large intact trawl net into strips from a tangle in the rocks, to enable transport of approximately 200kg of net.
Associated finds: Fixing twine (orange and green).
Net origin: Cornwall (based on style and condition), unknown port.
Batch 001 - Perranporth Beach
Date: 28/06/2022
Method: Large intact black net and tails, hauled back via cart past the Watering Hole, intact. Bundled into bags.
Associated finds: Dolly ropes and 6 tagged float buoys.
Net origin: Newlyn, Cornwall (based on buoys).