Saving Ghost Fishing Gear

05/05/2022 24 min

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Episode Synopsis

Twenty percent of the debris in the ocean is lost fishing gear. Leah Fulton's storymap 'The tale of lost fishing gear' won 1st place in a StoryMaps Challenge for restoring our ocean hosted by Esri and the National Geographic Society.  Leah tells Guan why abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear in Nova Scotia is a huge environmental problem and the challenges to solving it.