[The Guardian] ‘Ghost gear’: the Senegalese team battling a lethal fishing legacy

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[The Guardian] ‘Ghost gear’: the Senegalese team battling a lethal fishing legacy – in pictures

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‘Ghost gear’: the Senegalese team battling a lethal fishing legacy – in pictures

Fishing nets abandoned or lost in the sea – known as ‘ghost nets’ or ‘ghost gear’ – have been called ‘the most deadly form of marine plastic debris’. Dolphins, fish, whales, seabirds and turtles become entangled and die slow, painful deaths. But divers in Dakar are working to remove the threat

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