The NETTAG+ project, funded by the European Union, aims to combat fishing waste and mitigate its effects on marine life. View ...

Most of us are aware of the manmade plastic pollution that ends up in the world’s oceans and washes up on its shores: the straws, bags, and balloons that regularly harm marine life. Ghost gear has a ...

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (WPRI) — Abandoned fishing equipment, also called “ghost gear,” has been plaguing Narragansett Bay for decades. That’s why the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation kick-started ...

A divemaster said he decided to do his part for the environment after going for a dive at Sidney Pier and discovering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bounty of abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear was unloaded at MacMillan Pier in Provincetown Tuesday afternoon. Known as ...

So-called “ghost gear”, fishing equipment which is lost in the sea, can continue killing marine life for decades or even centuries after it first enters the ocean, making it the most deadly form of ...

The past few months have shown us just how devastating ocean plastics can be to marine life, causing many of us, including the Queen, to wage war on plastics such as straws, microbeads, and carrier ...

A coral reef destroyed by a ghost fishing net that has smothered all life beneath it. Your new pair of sneakers or sunglasses may have once been a tangled crusty mess of fishing net on the bottom of ...