He steadies himself then giant-strides into the cold Southern Ocean water. Volunteer divers gear up to inspect a reported ghost net off the coast of Wellington Harbour, New Zealand. Photograph by ...

Udupi: In a creative step towards marine conservation, discarded ghost nets retrieved from the coast of Karnataka, have been ...

Volunteers have spent five hours removing a 1,300ft-long (400m) abandoned fishing net from Plymouth Sound National Marine ...

The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

It is estimated that 1 million tons of ghost gear enter the ocean every year. Whale watchers left stunned after unexpected ...

“All plastic in the ocean is a result of human activity ... and food containers, the other is ghost fishing gear like nets, lines, traps, and buoys. While any discarded plastic is a threat ...

Plastic in the sea and “ghost nets” that endanger marine life are causing a headache in the tropical Maldivian paradise. At ...

When a fishing net gets lost at sea, or is dumped into the ocean, it becomes a “ghost net” – a danger for everything that lives in the water. Ghost Net Hunter (GNH) is a volunteer ...

The Indian Coast Guard's ship, Vigraha, rescued two endangered Olive Ridley turtles entangled in ghost nets. The annual ...

Ghost gear (n): Fishing gear, such as nets and lines, which has been lost or discarded in the ocean, and presents a danger to the marine environment and its creatures. Our oceans are filled with ...