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Tag: Derelict Fishing Traps

Biology Coastal Management Ecology Fisheries Human impacts Policy Pollution

The Ghastly Impacts of Ghost Fishing Gear

Derelict fishing traps, or DFTs, are abandoned traps that may still be actively capturing marine organisms, in a phenomenon known…
August 27, 2014August 29, 2014 Erin Markham

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