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What is Ghost Fishing?

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How to Free Seal Pups From Ghost Gear

In Australia, we can't leave you out. There's a program called Ghost Nets Australia and they've been partnering with indigenous groups to basically help cleaning up this stuff in individual areas. And then there's another fishery like we kind of have been picking on the fisheries and some of these companies, but some are getting on board. So definitely give them your support if you live there. They're working with the World Animal Protection Group to report sightings. The government has got to set up recycling stations or whatever to fund pilot programs to get the data going. You have to educate industry, you have to give them financial incentives to keep their nets, to bring them back ashore.

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