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 ...

While any discarded plastic is a threat to marine environments the most harmful type are discarded fishing nets. Once abandoned, they lie just below the surface and create huge risks for all types ...

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MECC), represented by the Marine Protection Department, continued its effo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 to some coral reef areas ...

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 ...