News Headline
UN guidelines and new technologies boost efforts to help curb 'ghost fishing'
Source
UN News Centre
Publication Date
2016-04-22
21 April 2016 – International guidelines being developed by a United Nations agency and new technologies are expected to boost efforts to cut down levels of abandoned fish gear, which often continues to carry out the capture process, entangling fish and other marine animals in its nets, a phenomenon known as “ghost fishing.”
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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=53742#.VxojNiz2aUk