Kyle de Bouter holds up a pair of Patagonia board shorts made of recycled fishing nets, smiling as workers nearby slice old nylon nets to stack into seven-foot square, one-ton bales. “This is ...

Ghost nets—often discarded by fishing trawlers—are one of the biggest threats to marine life. Strong ocean currents can carry ghost nets over long distances, eventually washing them ashore.

Zelensky's armed forces, as reported by Frontliner, the Ukrainian reporting platform, are deploying old fishing nets from the Netherlands to protect their equipment and positions on the front line.

A series of ancient drawings at a Palaeolithic site in Germany appear to show fish caught in nets, suggesting that the use of this fishing technology may go back further than previously thought.