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Tag: fishing gear
If we can’t untangle this mess, Norway’s blue industry will never be green
One recent study estimates that the total amount of fishing line lost annually could stretch from the moon and back. A new study from Norway shows that roughly one-third of lines could be recycled.
Reducing fishing gear could save whales with low impacts to California’s crab fishermen
Sometimes simple solutions are better. It all depends on the nature of the problem. For humpback whales, the problem is the rope connecting a crab trap on the seafloor to the buoy on the surface. And for fishermen, it’s fishery closures caused by whale entanglements.
Microplastics from ocean fishing can ‘hide’ in deep sediments
Researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology have linked microplastics in China’s Beibu Gulf with heavy fishing activities.