After all, fishing gear is expensive. On trip after trip they catch vast hauls of ghost gillnets and longlines, often wrapped around marine animals. He estimates that a typical crew of 20 on a month-long fishing voyage would generate roughly 20 cubic metres of waste, aside from the fishing gear. Most of them are involved in the Fishing for Litter scheme, landing the discarded gear and other rubbish they catch. Unless active gillnetting and ghost fishing by discarded nets are stopped, my contact believes, the entire marine ecosystem is likely to collapse.

Source: The Guardian January 19, 2022 16:30 UTC