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Best Practice on Reducing the Amount of Fishing Gear Littering the NE Atlantic

by on July 14, 2020

OSPAR has published a scoping study on best practices for the design and recycling of fishing gear as a means to reduce quantities of fishing gear found as marine litter in the North East Atlantic. Both unintentional and intentional loss of fishing gear at sea result in marine litter and negative environmental impacts. The study

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