The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific, captured by four currents ...

“Under every gillnet that I’ve found, there’s always a bone pile, so evidence of its ‘ghost fishing’ for ... that the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the accumulation of marine ...

Floating in the middle of the North Atlantic, hundreds of miles from any coastline, the Sargasso Sea defies typical ...

Discarded nets, lines, and ropes now make up about 46% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This marine plastic has a name: ghost fishing gear. Ghost fishing gear includes any abandoned, lost, or ...

The Florida state fishing record for snook is 45.75-pound fish caught in Jupiter Inlet by angler Heather Connors back in 2015 but over in the Pacific, the Pacific Black Snook species gets bigger than ...

Chilean fishing company PacificBlu has announced it will shutter its operations as of 1 January 2026 after the Chilean government determined to lower the industrial fishing quota of hake in a new ...

According to the USCG, a boatcrew from Grays Harbor rescued three people from a capsized 68-foot commercial fishing vessel. The agency said boatcrews and an aircrew from Astoria are actively ...

Although many environmental organizations are trying to solve this problem, it looks like only the Ocean Cleanup has come close to solving the problem of the large garbage patch. #ocean # ...

Photo courtesy of BREEZE Many efforts to clean ocean trash have come to fruition in recent years — some so effective that they could clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within the next five years ...