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Every year, up to a million tons of fishing nets are lost or dumped at sea. These "ghost nets" continue to kill indiscriminately. Millions of marine animals die in agony each year, while conservationists conduct diving operations to recover the nets.
Every year, up to a million tons of fishing nets are lost or dumped at sea. These "ghost nets" continue to kill indiscriminately. Millions of marine animals die in agony each year, while conservationists conduct diving operations to recover the nets.
Net Free Seas has salvaged 15 tons of waste netting from sea waters in its first year of operation.
In the Gulf of Mannar, abandoned fishing nets are posing a threat to corals and the marine ecosystem Though marine debris spans an area of only 1,150 square metres, researchers are worried about its impact on one of India’s only four major coral reefs. A fish caught in the ghost net decays underwater in the Gulf of Mannar. | SDMRI via Mongabay Dive into the clear, shallow waters of the Gulf of Mannar and you would be met with more than a hundred species of corals. Among these vivid corals of varying shapes and sizes live thousands of reef-fish that locals depend on for fo...
We did some grow some was like 20 meters and was like a kilometer back depends on the whole the whole file they cut down a. lot of things because of the net. it's destroying the entier. the better it did on. these dive out of in the s.p. he's trying to clear the waters of the charity of these ghost nets which are discarded abandoned almost by fishermen. out of him that is quite the local hero inputted charity in 22 and he stumbled upon an undersea war with an exquisite marine ecosystem of its own during an extraordinary die 40 kilometers away from the shore. out of things war as it came to be ...