Lost, discarded or abandoned fishing gear make up for 10 per cent of all marine litter Large amounts of fishing gear lost at sea or abandoned by fishers are hurting the marine environment ...

Once considered remote and pristine, the Arctic is now succumbing to a tide of plastic. In Norway, a monumental effort is ...

January was filled with bitter cold conditions, but that didn't stop more than a dozen commercial fishing crews from getting out on the water to find lost fishing gear as part of a month-long clean-up ...

January was filled with bitter cold conditions, but that didn't stop more than a dozen commercial fishing crews from getting out on the water to find lost fishing gear as part of a month-long clean-up ...

will go towards the cleanup of lost fishing gear in Maine waters. The president of OceansWide, Buzz Scott, says this cleanup is a step in the right direction in clearing the state’s ocean floors.

A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more ...

Underwater noise is pollution, but if we stop putting it in the ocean, it will disappear ... One of the most damaging types of marine plastic pollution is abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear – ...

The Center has been going to court to defend loggerhead sea turtles from deadly fishing-gear entanglements off the U.S. West and ... throughout their range — including from sea-level rise, ocean ...