{"id":137725,"date":"2019-07-15T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=137725"},"modified":"2019-07-15T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T08:36:13","slug":"ghost-nets-how-lost-and-abandoned-fishing-gear-is-destroying-marine-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/07\/ghost-nets-how-lost-and-abandoned-fishing-gear-is-destroying-marine-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ghost Nets’: How Lost and Abandoned Fishing Gear Is Destroying Marine Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

12 Jul 2019 – Up to 800,000 tonnes of ghost fishing gear gets into oceans each year.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The amount of fishing gear remaining in the marine environment will continue to accumulate and the impacts on marine ecosystems will continue to get worse.<\/p><\/div>\n

The sight\u00a0of an\u00a0abandoned fishing net trapping fish or strangling seals\u00a0never comes as a surprise for B.C. commercial diver Bourton Scott.<\/p>\n

Scott’s day job is beneath the ocean’s surface, inspecting underwater structures for different clients. But during nearly every dive, he comes across lost or discarded fishing material\u00a0\u2014 or “ghost gear” \u2014 that is still snaring wildlife.<\/p>\n

“When a net’s lost, it continually fishes \u2014 it doesn’t stop fishing,” said Scott. “[And] since the animals that are caught aren’t being harvested or removed, it baits more animals into the net.”<\/p>\n

The result is “an ongoing death trap.”<\/p>\n

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12 Jul 2019 – Up to 800,000 tonnes of ghost fishing gear gets into oceans each year. “When a net’s lost, it continually fishes \u2014 it doesn’t stop fishing, and since the animals that are caught aren’t being harvested or removed, it baits more animals into the net. The result is an ongoing death trap.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":107016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[570,401,1271,896],"class_list":["post-137725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","tag-animals","tag-environment","tag-marine-pollution","tag-oceans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}