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 ...

For the last 12 years a company called Bureo has been working with local fisherman to remove dangerous nets from the ocean.

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 ...