Industrial ghost nets can be massive - up to six miles long. They drift on ocean currents ... been in finding a market for the nets that are recovered. “Before Healthy Seas came along, the ...

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

Teams will be looking for the abandoned fishing gear in Bay, Boston Harbor and Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

A so-called ghost net has been found washed up along Western Australia's southern coast. The dumped or lost fishing nets are generally found off Australia's northern coast and pose a risk to ...

To illustrate the importance of small-scale fishing and to highlight the damage that lost and abandoned fishing gear can have ...

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 ...