For the last 12 years a company called Bureo has been working with local fisherman to remove dangerous nets from the ocean.

The fishing industry is a global powerhouse that feeds millions around the world. Revolutionary company announces new tech ...

Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water ...

The ghost nets, abandoned fishing nets that continue to trap and kill aquatic life long after they are discarded, have been a ...

About nine million tons of visible plastic trash enter oceans each year—then there’s the waste we can’t see. This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

A 2016 survey by Japan's environment ministry found that nearly two-thirds of the plastic that washes ashore is from the fishing industry. Nets and ropes alone accounted for more than 40 percent ...

While we’ve all seen heartbreaking photos of beaches strewn with water bottles and fishing nets, it’s the invisible ... We’ve dumped billions of tons of plastic waste into our environment ...

The unusual discovery of a ghost net — a lost or dumped fishing net drifting through the ocean — washed up near Albany sparks concern for the nets' impact on local marine life.

Every day, waves of plastic litter sweep into our oceans, worsening a crisis that will plague the marine environment for centuries to come. From tiny microbeads to abandoned fishing nets ...