Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between ... by collecting the samples in the patch, fishing them out with a net.

Marine life can be trapped in plastic garbage, especially discarded "ghost" fishing nets that continue ... up a staggering 94% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, according to the WorldWildlife ...

Translucent, fragile marine creatures that drift through the sea are riding the motion of the ocean to a destination that’s infamous as a home for trash: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Did you know that there's a garbage patch ... fishing nets. Furthermore, they often mistake the gelatinous texture of plastic for a jellyfish, their preferred food. The hazards of ghost fishing ...

Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ocean’s surface. It’s easy to find striking images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). The problem is that ...

Between 75 to 86 percent of the plastics floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch come from offshore fishing and aquaculture activities, according to an analysis of the trash collected by ...