Ghost gear & more: Over 2,700 tonnes of fishing materials collected, recycled in one-year period in Atlantic Canada
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Ghost gear' piles up in the Gulf of Maine amid plastic onslaught on oceans
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Ghost gear & more: Over 2,700 tonnes of fishing materials collected, recycled in one-year period in Atlantic Canada
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Ghosted: Federal funding program ends for ghost gear program, putting retrieval and recycling at risk
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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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Plastics in marine ecosystem: A review of their sources and pollution conduits - ScienceDirect
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63 tonnes of 'ghost gear' removed from Atlantic Ocean in 2020: Fisheries Department
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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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Cleaning up the Atlantic Ocean, one fishing net at a time goal of project in Truro, N.S.
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Frontiers Marine litter in submarine canyons: A systematic review and critical synthesis
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33 tonnes of ghost gear pulled from Nova Scotia shores last year, group says