How Can Governments Stop the Deadliest Form of Ocean Plastic?
From implementing extended producer responsibility schemes to banning harmful single-use plastic items, governments at all levels have the ability to make a big difference on all forms of ocean plastic pollution. This is...
How Can Governments Stop the Deadliest Form of Ocean Plastic?
Abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear—also known as ghost gear—is the deadliest form of plastic in our ocean impacting marine life and fish stock levels. However, through the Global Ghost Gear Initiative, we are inve...
Ghost Gear Prevention in the Seafood Industry
As for many ocean advocates around the world, Sir David Attenborough is one of my childhood heroes and a continued source of inspiration for my work. In the most recent Blue Planet documentary, A Life on Our Planet, his...
If We Care for Our Ocean, Our Ocean Will Care for Us
In June 2019, the Global Ghost Gear Initiative® (GGGI), alongside 11th Hour Racing, the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation and local fishers, removed a ten-ton ball of gear from the Gulf of Maine. Roughly the size of a wha...
Collaboration As a Key to the Ghost Gear Threat
This blog was written by Jenna Schwerzmann, Joanna Toole Ghost Gear Awardee. Originally from upstate New York, Jenna began her marine conservation career on Long Island after graduating from Stony Brook University with a...
The Maldives Is a Hot Spot for Tourists, Tuna and Ghost Gear
This blog was written by Jenna Schwerzmann. Originally from upstate New York, Jenna began her marine conservation career on Long Island after graduating from Stony Brook University with a B.S. in Marine Vertebrate Biolog...
Going to Great Depths for Ghost Gear
For billions of people across the world, fish is an essential part of their diet and livelihood. Fish accounts for at least 13.8% of the animal protein intake of the human population and in many countries, the number is...
Tackling Ghost Gear Through Community Engagement
Penned by Becca Robbins Gisclair, Nicholas J. Mallos, Michael LeVine and Henry P. Huntington, this blog is sourced from a featured column in the journal Environment on the threat plastic pollution poses in the Arctic Oce...
Reducing Plastics and Other Waste in the Arctic Ocean
Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of collaboration in conservation work. The Global Ghost Gear Initiative® (GGGI) recently published it’s 2019 Annual Report, and as I reflected on ou...
Joining Forces With the United States to Tackle Ghost Gear
This blog was written by Jenna Schwerzmann. Originally from upstate New York, Jenna began her marine conservation career on Long Island after graduating from Stony Brook University with a B.S. in Marine Vertebrate Biolog...