Product Review

FIELDMATE™ Review

(Overview)

FIELDMATE™ is a fishing line and I do not really go fishing but I like this product because of its feature, "biodegradable". 
This fishing line is environmentally friendly with the principle of decomposition by microorganisms. Its performance is totally fine when kept clean and dry, but when exposed to the biological activity of bacteria underwater or underground, FIELDMATE™ gradually decomposes to form wrapping carbon dioxide and water.
Biodegradable fishing lines are not common globally. It is honorable as Japanese that Toray made it. 

The retail price is around 1,500 yen.

(Features)

・Biodegradable
・The feel is like a rubber 

(Pros and Cons)

(+) Birds, dolphins, and other plenty of animals can be saved.★
(+) Decrease nervous feelings when you lose a part of a fishing line.
(+) makes feel easy to go fishing.

(-) More expensive than usual fishing lines.
(-) A little bit weak compare to normal plastic lines.
(-) Not easily available.

　★Fishing lines left in the nature by humans have killed a big amount of creatures in the sea like dolphins and waterfowls. I've seen many dead swans and ducks who were involved with fishing lines. Fishing lines can chain up their feet, cut their feet, tighten the necks and kill. To save them, we must stop fishing, or use biodegradable lines, or maybe we need to jump into the water to collect all the lines if we lose.

(Rating)

I give FIELDMATE™ a score of 6 / 10.
It is not the perfect solution at all because it is not the best quality and not produced now actually, but using normal plastic fishing lines should be minus 10000 point.

Decide to buy a biodegradable one, or you will use a plastic lines as a dolphin killer.
I hope more people will realize the necessity of biodegradable ones. Do you still prefer to use a cheap animal-killing plastic fishing line?