Up from the spooky depths: Ghost Gear program takes tonnes of lost fishing gear from N.L.'s coastal waters, but it's just a start
By A Mystery Man Writer
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Up from the spooky depths: Ghost Gear program takes tonnes of lost fishing gear from N.L.'s coastal waters, but it's just a start
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Ghost gear: The debris haunting the waters in Tampa Bay
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Cleaning up the Atlantic Ocean, one fishing net at a time goal of project in Truro, N.S.
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Ghost Fishing?
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The United States Becomes a Member of the Global Ghost Gear Initiative
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Southwestern Nova Scotia: Lost fishing gear
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Ghost Gear Retrieval Project
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The Global Ghost Gear Initiative - Ocean Conservancy
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Coastal Action on the hunt for lost fishing gear