These abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing nets silently drift beneath the waves, nearly invisible in the dim aquatic light.

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 ...

Podcasts: From unlistenable to unmissable When those nets get lost at sea, they become ghost nets, an expense for fishermen and deadly for marine life. It's hard to measure the scale of the ...

Gill nets, fishing pots and traps are most likely to “ghost fish,” while long-lines are more likely to ensnare other marine organisms and trawls most likely to damage sub-sea habitats.

Visakhapatnam: A dead Olive Ridley sea turtle on Mukkam beach in Bhogapuram mandal has highlighted the growing concern among ...

Nick Moran of Go Fly Maui (standing) and Campbell Farrell, executive director of Love the Sea, prepare tracking equipment to drop on a large ghost net during a helicopter search flight Jan.

The net will be taken away and recycled by the Ocean Recovery Project A huge "ghost" fishing net estimated to be more than 100ft (30m) long has washed up on a beach in Cornwall. Up to 15 people ...

A ghost net is removed by Ocean Voyages Institute from the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii in June. The organization, along with local nonprofits and government agencies, are trying to ...

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 ...

Recently, they embarked on a journey at the site of the UB-88 submarine wreck off the coast of San Pedro. The World War II U-boat is covered with what they call ghost nets, which put marine life in ...