You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

BOSTON — Abandoned fishing gear has posed problems for authorities ... for coastal communities that deal with this form of pollution when it washes ashore. The state Division of Marine Fisheries ...

One of the most damaging types of marine plastic pollution is abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear – commonly called “ghost gear.” Ghost gear is the most deadly form of marine plastic debris.

Entanglement in fishing gear is a leading threat to endangered whales and sea turtles. Trap fisheries, like California’s commercial Dungeness crab and New England lobster fisheries, are threatening ...

It’s almost that time of year again for volunteers to help Texas Parks and Wildlife with a crucial conservation task: ...

A federal appeals court is reinstating rules designed to protect a vanishing whale species from entanglement in fishing gear.

In the French part of the Bay of Biscay, one of Europe’s richest fishing grounds, thousands of dolphins die each year after becoming accidentally entangled in fishing nets. On average, around a ...

Mehrotra recently led a study that assessed the scale of the impacts of discarded or “ghost” fishing gear on Thailand’s marine species. The study, published in the journal Marine Pollution ...

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...