All posts by Britta Denise Hardesty
740,000km of fishing line and 14 billion hooks: we reveal just how much fishing gear is lost at sea each year
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Two per cent of all fishing gear used worldwide ends up polluting the oceans, our new research finds. To put that into perspective, the amount of longline fishing gear littering the ocean each year can circle the Earth…