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 ...

KARACHI: Lost at sea, forgotten by fishermen but still killing indiscriminately, discarded fishing nets continue to haunt ...

A ghost net stuck on an old sunken wooden barge 5 miles outside of Barnegat Inlet has sparked two recreational divers to start production of a documentary about derelict fishing gear littering ...

In Sri Lankan waters, there’s a growing problem of ghost nets that are entangling sea turtles, fish, dolphins and seabirds, reports contributor Malaka Rodrigo for Mongabay. “Ghost nets” are fishing ...

Watch this clip where a woman rescued a triggerfish trapped in Ghost net. Sonalia Pal from Veerampattinam, Puducherry, India, ...

So-called “ghost gear”, fishing equipment which is lost in the sea, can continue killing marine life for decades or even centuries after it first enters the ocean, making it the most deadly form of ...