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The WWF refers to ghost gear as “the most deadly form of marine plastic debris.” The organization is pushing for measures to prevent the loss of fishing gear by designing equipment that is ...

In the same month, a Green turtle was found dead in Chanthaburi, Thailand, with plastic shreds from fishing gear, rubber bands and other marine debris in its stomach. In 2016, a Sei whale and a Baleen ...

IT’S been some years since the minke whale washed up on a Shetland beach. The distressed mammal had been caught up in plastic at sea and ...

Nearly every day, new evidence rolls in about the threats of plastic pollution — from discarded fishing gear (known as “ghost gear”) to microplastics less than five millimeters in length.

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