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What is Ghost Fishing?

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The Problem With Ghost Gear

The World Animal Protection Group estimates that getting snared in ghost gear kills about 136,000 sea lions and large whales every year. The plastics that they use could be out there for five or six hundred years. And when they do break up, then the animals eat that stuff and die.

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