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Small Maine island yields huge haul of ghost gear

'You see this tiny little island, just piled 10 feet (high) with lobster traps and rope and buoys and just all this stuff that is washed up on the shore' -- Madeline Black, Ocean Conservancy. 

By Undercurrent News | July 27, 2022 18:24 BST
Loggerhead turtle trapped in an abandoned drifting net, Balearic Channel, Mediterranean sea. Credit: World Animal Protection
Loggerhead turtle trapped in an abandoned drifting net, Balearic Channel, Mediterranean sea. Credit: World Animal Protection
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Environmental advocates and volunteers working to reduce the amount of abandoned fishing gear in the US Gulf of Maine found 4,723 pounds worth on a small privately-owned island off Corea, the Portland Press Herald reports [...]

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