According to the study, the problem of abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) is getting worse due to the increased scale of global ... ghost fishing. Today, bottom set gill ...
His buddies are already in the water - two free divers who’ll stay at surface level and keep an eye on things, and two scuba divers who’ll help him recover the ghost net that descends like a ...
lost and discarded fishing nets, including funding $1.4 million towards the Global Ghost Gear Initiative.
Its life couldn’t be saved. It’s thought that at least 300,000 whales and dolphins are killed by ghost nets, ropes and buoys every year. The Global Whale Entanglement Response Network aims to prevent ...
"Under the project, conservationists have rescued and released multiple migratory birds trapped in ghost nets — fine nets that are hard to spot — across a vast area," said Soumitra Roy of BAN ...
The forest department has recovered 150kg of “ghost nets” from a tributary of the Padma in Murshidabad, where gharial babies died last month after being trapped in such nets discarded by fishermen. At ...