Abandoned fishing gear can "ghost fish," or trap and kill ocean animals that are never harvested. It's also costly - and ...

Ghost nets don’t only catch fish; they also entangle sea turtles, dolphins and porpoises, birds, sharks, seals, and more. These animals swim into nets, often unable to detect them by sight or sonar.

Video / NZ Herald The man who went missing in the water at an Ōhope beach after fleeing police was retrieving his fishing net, a family member says. Police claim the 42-year-old went missing from ...

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.

METRE fishing net which was discovered at the Leixlip Reservoir in Co Kildare was taken down on Sunday by Inland Fisheries ...

Apart from other debris like single-use plastics, it is common to see fishing nets. While some were 'lost' nets, others are simply abandoned, especially when they get ruined or are raided by animals.

Lost or abandoned fishing nets, which float around in the sea, or come to rest on the seabed, are often referred to as ‘ghost’ fishing gear. “We found an accumulation of remnants of nylon ...

The scheme in Poole collects nylon gill nets - a wall of netting that hangs in the sea to catch fish that swim into it. It has been set up by the Weymouth & Portland Marine Litter Project together ...

Last weekend the Minister of Conservation announced that some of the proposed high protection areas for the Hauraki Gulf—perhaps two—would allow a commercial method called “ring-net fishing”, inside ...