Ghost net
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Ghost nets are fishing nets that have been abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded in the ocean, lakes, and rivers. These nets, often nearly invisible in the dim light, can be left tangled on a rocky
A sea turtle entangled in a ghost net.
Many marine species including turtles, sharks, whales, dolphins, and dugongs become entangled in ghost nets. Most go unnoticed and unrecorded.
A glass float on the beach. Many of these floats for fish nets wash up on island beaches around the Pacific. The loss of the floats can leave fish nets drifting in the open ocean where they continue to entangle fish, birds, and marine mammals.
This net found at Pearl and Hermes Atoll in 2014 weighed 11.5 tons
Glass float
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Glass floats were used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat.
Ghost net
…oceans for a considerable time before breaking up. Some commercial fishermen use gillnets. These are suspended in the sea by flotation buoys, such as glass floats, along one edge. In this way they can form a vertical wall hundreds of metres long, where any fish within a certain size range can be caught. Normally…
A Japanese glass fishing float
Small glass float from southern tip of Taiwan
Mark of the Asahi Glass Company
Small glass float located on the beach in Japan