Five divers will go down in timed intervals to prep more of the net to be recovered the next day. They’re all certified ...

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 ...

Abandoned fishing gear can "ghost fish," or trap and kill ocean animals that are never harvested. It's also costly - and ...

We got on the boat with them to learn more. Why it matters: Ghost nets are abandoned, lost or discarded fishing nets floating through the ocean. They often kill marine life that gets caught up in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The World War II U-boat is covered with what they call ghost nets, which put marine life in danger. "Ghost fishing is what the nets do because the abandoned nets do what they're designed to do ...