Ocean Conservation Group Targets Deadly 'Ghost Gear'
Commercial diver and part-time conservationist Bourton Scott has made a passion project out of searching out and cleaning up the unseen threat posed by "ghost gear," the commercial nets and traps lost or abandoned off B.C.'s coast over the decades.
Lost overboard in bad weather, caught up on reefs or rocks or with the nets of other fishermen during frantic openings for fishing, Scott said the equipment doesn't disappear, but keeps wreaking havoc by continuing to trap fish, seals, birds and sometimes even whales...
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