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

fishing with nets in areas where bottom-traps that can entangle them are already deployed. The main impacts of abandoned or lost fishing gear are: continued catches of fish -- known as “ghost ...

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

The Kuwaiti Diving Team, affiliated with the Environmental Voluntary Foundation, successfully removed three abandoned fishing ...

Lake Kariba has seen a major environmental breakthrough with the retrieval of seven tonnes of ghost nets, marking a ...

To protect the marine environment, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change's (MoECC) Marine Protection Department has removed abandoned fishing nets that were stuck ...

Thyborøn, a fishing village of some 2,000 people in Jutland, just happened to have 450 tons of those nets sitting unused at the harbor. These were trawling nets, made of nylon fibers up to four ...

KUWAIT CITY, March 11: The Kuwaiti Diving Team, affiliated with the Voluntary Environmental Foundation, successfully recovered three tons of abandoned fishing nets from the southern Kuwait Sea near ...

Abandoned fishing lines are the focus of a volunteer cleanup effort at Seattle’s Green Lake this weekend. The stray lines are blamed for killing two owls along the water’s edge in recent years.

The ghost nets, abandoned fishing nets that continue to trap and kill aquatic life long after they are discarded, have been a major problem in Lake Kariba, threatening the livelihoods of fishermen ...