- Two percent of all fishing gear used worldwide ends up polluting the oceans. To put that into perspective the amount of longline fishing gear littering the ocean each year can circle the Earth more than 18 times. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0135 41 comments science
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- New study reveals ‘staggering’ scale of lost fishing gear drifting in Earth’s oceans | Fish | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/16/new-study-reveals-staggering-scale-of-lost-fishing-gear-drifting-in-earths-oceans 143 comments
- The Fishing Line Lost at Sea in a Year Could Wrap Around Earth 18 Times : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/the-fishing-line-lost-at-sea-in-a-year-could-wrap-around-earth-18-times 12 comments
- ‘An invisible killer’: how fishing gear became the deadliest marine plastic | Plastics | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/07/invisible-killer-ghost-fishing-gear-deadliest-marine-plastic 7 comments
- 740,000km of fishing line and 14 billion hooks: we reveal just how much fishing gear is lost at sea each year https://theconversation.com/740-000km-of-fishing-line-and-14-billion-hooks-we-reveal-just-how-much-fishing-gear-is-lost-at-sea-each-year-192024 2 comments