Fishing's phantom menace: How ghost fishing gear is endangering our sea life by World Animal Protection Canada - Issuu
By A Mystery Man Writer
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Finding and retrieving 'ghost' fishing gear? There's a made-in
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Knowledge Synthesis Guide
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MEDIA RELEASE: August 1 is Respect for Fish Day: Dangers of Ghost
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Ghost Fishing Gear: A Major Source of Marine Plastic Pollution
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Canada's Ghost Gear Fund delivering results for cleaner oceans
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Ghost gear: Educational guide and activity book
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Impact for animals World Animal Protection
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Ghost Gear Factsheets
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Young Cormorant Distress Tangled Fishing Line Hook Stock Photo by
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Unsustainable fishing methods - Wikipedia
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Tagging fishing gear would save lives
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Ghost gear' blamed for deaths of nearly 140,000 marine animals
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Multi-million dollar Canadian effort launched to clean oceans of