WASHINGTON — To get a delicious piece of shrimp, lobster, fish or crab, fisherman usually put down a net or cage to catch the seafood. Sometimes, those nets and crab pots get lost or abandoned at sea, ...

Federal funding is backing efforts to remove abandoned fishing gear, known as "ghost gear," from oceans in Florida, Alaska and California. Ghost gear, which includes discarded fishing equipment, poses ...

Industrial fishing has been in hot water with the public for the last few years, with popular documentaries and exposés pointing out the devastating impacts of poor stewardship on the ocean. This ...

Most of us are aware of the manmade plastic pollution that ends up in the world’s oceans and washes up on its shores: the straws, bags, and balloons that regularly harm marine life. Ghost gear has a ...

A coral reef destroyed by a ghost fishing net that has smothered all life beneath it. Your new pair of sneakers or sunglasses may have once been a tangled crusty mess of fishing net on the bottom of ...

Fish trapped by a lost net. Marine animals get entangled in abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear (ghost gear) that eventually kills them. [Photo: Courtesy] After casting his nets into Lake ...

Not far off the islands of the Republic of Vanuatu, a deserted trawl-fishing net undulates in the azure tropical Pacific. No one knows whom it belonged to or how it was lost, but it has twisted around ...

Fishing gear isn’t just deadly when there’s a fisherman at the other end of the line. Lost and abandoned equipment continues to kill, rampaging beneath the ocean’s surface, tangling fish, drowning ...

Sometimes when you hold a contest, you get more than you bargained for. Like one held recently by the Ocean Conservancy, seeking images showing the beauty and wonder of the ocean. Plenty of photos ...