According to Ocean Defenders Alliance abandoned fishing nets are big threats to marine life and so a team of scuba divers had worked to remove those dead gears off the coast of San Diego. They found hundreds of pounds of abandoned fishing gear threatening sea life seriously. The mission of the Ocean Defenders Alliance is to clean and protect coastal waters from “ghost gear,” or leftover commercial fishing equipment, such as nets.
Kurt Lieber, who is with the Ocean Defenders Alliance, said that these abandoned fishing gears are killing all the time. He informed that he along with the team of divers have removed about 400 pounds of commercial fishing nets about two miles south of the Point Loma marina. He also told that fishing nets frequently get caught in reefs or wrecks and are then abandoned.
He said although there is no law saying to get it out of there but still these nets can be dangerous to divers and environment. He said that all the stuff that cleans the water to sustain life [and] provide habitat for the fish… they die as well.
