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, ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — As we celebrate Halloween, there's a ghost that haunts below the water's surface in Tampa Bay – and this spooky devil becomes a graveyard for countless marine life. Ghost gear ...

Discarded nets, lines and traps are a hazard to marine life and ecosystems around the world, but pioneering programs are tackling the problem creatively through education, prevention, ocean cleanups ...

Greg Vespe has fished Rhode Island waters for 25 years and said he’ll cast his line for “whatever bites.” But more and more, as the 58-year-old angler reels in summer flounder, codfish, tautog, and ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — The University of Rhode Island (URI) announced Tuesday that it has received a $2.5 million grant from Ørsted to address the “ghost gear” discovered near the Revolution ...

Studies and NGOs have documented lost or abandoned gear from open-net aquaculture operations in coastal areas across cold and temperate latitudes, where fish farming in the sea expanded rapidly in the ...

Teams of scientists and hobbyist scuba divers have assessed the extent of discarded fishing gear on Thailand’s marine wildlife, finding it poses a pervasive threat to a huge range of species.

From beaches across Mexico, groups of women in diving gear who call themselves sirenas, or mermaids, are taking on the ocean’s ghosts. Starting their days at 6 a.m., they search for and remove one of ...