Graphic design student Allsopp said: “It’s a visual reminder where you put the plastic bottles in the fishes mouth to fill it up which has a literal depiction of what’s going on in the sea.”
The students said the idea stemmed from a child’s drawing which was mocked up as a 3D model before the team created the design over a four-month period.
They had to go back and make changes to ensure plastic bottles did not fall through the shapes in the fish.
The sculpture is being sent to the UK to be galvanised – where it is dipped in zinc to avoid rust and corrosion and smoothen out the tack welds – before it returns to Guernsey.
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