‘Ghost fishing’ is killing 650,000 marine animals every year as animals become trapped in discarded nets, but now researchers have come up with a solution. Experts at SINTEF, ...

Public awareness is critical. Researchers discover 'hotspots' of dangerous issue in fishing industry: 'Not every fisherman is ...

This fleet has reclaimed enough ghost nets to extend past 1,000 meters in length from Finland’s west coast. And Finnish waters still have less fishing than neighboring Sweden due to the ocean ...

BOSTON — Abandoned fishing gear has posed problems for authorities wishing to clear it from state waters and shorelines for decades, but new legislation is aimed at making that task easier. An ...

Ghost fishing occurs when old fishing gear, though lost to Davy Jones’ locker, continues to catch crab, salmon, ground fish and sometimes marine mammals years after finding its way to the seabed.

Ghost Fishing was set up to try to remove this lost equipment from the marine environment. It is a challenging and difficult task, and one only for highly trained divers. With an exciting year ahead ...

In addition to polluting the oceans with plastics, ghost gear is already impacting fishing yields. "The best estimate I've seen is about 10% of fish stock is trapped and killed by ghost fishing ...

Divers remove ‘ghost fishing’ nets near sunken destroyer off San Pedro The mission was the first effort undertaken in the United States by the international nonprofit Healthy Seas, partnering ...

Volunteer divers spent time this week near a sunken pre-World War II destroyer, retrieving commercial fishing nets 150 feet under the sea off the coast of San Pedro as part of an international ...