Fisheries and Oceans Canada is funding 26 projects in Canada and around the world to help rid the oceans of this destructive litter. The $8.3 million Sustainable Fisheries Solutions and…
The Net Free Seas project – run by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) and funded by the Norwegian Retailers’ Environment Fund – is aiming to rid Thailand’s waters of deadly…
Over the last week the clean-up programme run by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries with leased clean-up vessel Liafjord has lifted 1200 snow crab traps and around 50,000 metres of…
A miniature transponder that can be attached to fishing gear is being developed and trialled as part of a project aimed at reducing ghost fishing. The acoustic devices attached to…
Harmful to animals and constituting a part of the problem of the marine plastic, the extent of ghost nets in the Bothnian Sea is being investigated by the Finnish Environment…