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This Underwater Sculpture Garden Protects Italian Fishing Grounds

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A student from an art high school in Grosseto is about to throw into the water a work created to offer octopuses a home as an alternative to illegal fishing traps. Valerio Muscella for NPR hide caption

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A student from an art high school in Grosseto is about to throw into the water a work created to offer octopuses a home as an alternative to illegal fishing traps.

Valerio Muscella for NPR

Mermaids, giants and huge eyes look up from the waters near Talamone, Italy. It’s one fisherman’s way of protecting fishing grounds from the damage of trawling nets. Artists’ sculptures are sunk to the bottom of the Mediterranean sea along with concrete blocks to break the nets of the trawlers that devastate marine life.

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