Ghost gear, also known as lost and abandoned fishing gear, is the silent killer stalking our oceans and killing hundreds of thousands of sea animals each year: http://ow.ly/FDme30iOROM
These nets can be as large as a footy field and every minute another tonne enters our oceans. World Animal Protection released a new report on the scale of this problem. Follow this link to find out more: http://ow.ly/FDme30iOROM

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