
Sign our petition and help us move seafood companies to address ghost gear in their supply chains and do more to protect marine animals.
Sign our petition and help us move seafood companies to address ghost gear in their supply chains and do more to protect marine animals.
Top image: A loggerhead turtle trapped in an abandoned drifting net. Ghost gear traps, injures, mutilates and kills more than 136,000 turtles and other marine mammals each year. (Credit: Jordi Chias / naturepl.com)
Ghost gear (aka lost, abandoned or discarded fishing equipment) is one of the biggest threats to marine animals in our oceans. According to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), a staggering 640,000 tons of ghost gear is left in our oceans each year – more than one ton every minute!
Ghost gear is harming marine animals and contributing to our ocean’s plastic problem. In our report 'Ghosts beneath the waves' we found that:
80% of the largest seafood companies do not yet have an effective way of dealing with ghost gear and that’s why we’re asking them to do more to address this problem.
The world's largest seafood companies have the power to protect our precious ocean life from getting caught and dying in ghost gear. Sign our petition and help us convince these seafood companies to address ghost gear in their supply chains and do more to protect marine animals.
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