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

Just as land pollution has become a detriment to our planet, and those who reside upon it, so, too, has marine pollution, affecting nearly 270 species around the globe due to an aggregate of ...

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 ...

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

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

Nets and ropes alone accounted for more than 40 percent of plastic pollution on the nation's shores. Fishing equipment washed up on a beach in Japan Tachibana Hiroki, head of the Ainan Fisheries ...

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 ...