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Scary..

People can be so irresponsible!

Good luck over there on the Espy! Give it a hug for me :)

Fair Winds,
Abri

Is there someway in which these nets can be removed? How do you find them? These are truly ghosts in the water and their dance of death is fearful.

Sad history. Sad reality.
Hope. That's my answer for the inocents. Hope, that one day they will swim in a pure and inocent ocean, a pure and inocent world.
Without us.

Hey, nice post - really interesting story that I had never heard of before. Do you know if anyone is trying to do anything about this?

Impressive, never thought of it, and so obvious once described.. ! Thanks, Marie !
What about those plastic bags eaten by turtles / sharks, fish etc: is it the same story ? or do they decompose : are they shredded enough so as to pose less risk to the next possible eaters ?
Brr... frightening it is...
Thierry

Pure and innocent ocean, pure and innocent world. Aren't those beautiful words? Where have they gone? Where have the pureness and innocence gone in this world? When someone expresses hope for peace, for freedom, for compassion, they are made to feel out of place. Where if not in planet earth, will we discover this values again? And, what would we become without them?

those losers should be punished for that stuff i mean it is a form of pollution is it not?

Hi, Newbie to this Blog,
I just finished watching a cool documentry, "Last Journey for the Leatherback?" Produced by Stanley M. Minasian, for "Turtle Island Restoration Network. .. www.seaturtles.org ..
I don't know if everyone has already seen this video, but its worth watching.

Makes you think twice about ordering sea food.
:)

That is possibly the scariest story I've ever been told.
What are we doing to ourselves and our planet? It needs to stop!! We are living killing machines and we cant keep going like this! We'll kill each other as well as everything else that breathes!!

I am inquiring to Greenpeace and of others in the field of marine life studies in an effort to bring to your attention to a plight that I think may be occurring in the oceans off our coast and around the world.
It is a concern to all that view our oceans as a source of food, work, and recreation and as a vital element to our very extence on this earth.

As we all know this last decade the fishes of the sea have been in great peril.
Once thought as an endless resource now some fear that over harvesting with the use of new technology will be the end of this resource.
But is it over fishing? Or something else!

What I would like to propose is a research project on “the effects of degrading plastics in our oceans nursery”

The question is. Are the planctonic sea life “babies of the sea” ingesting our plastics? After plastics degraded it may appear like food to them.
What happens? Do they die?
And the million dollar question.
Is the decline of our ocean species of fish and other sea life due in part to plastics and other man made pollution?
. You may know of studies done in this subject I would like to hear about them.

Hey the story was great but I know that this story is not real. How come I never heard this story before anyway?

Lacey Shelby: Why do you think this story is not for real, just because you have heard it before? Ghost nets truly are a problem in seas around the globe. If you do a simple search on google you’ll find loads of information.

What this article doesn't mention is that on top of the nets (and ropes and lines) that are abandoned overboard many of the nets are simply lost by their owners. Often these are driftnets of tremendous size (hundreds of meters and longer) equipped with radio beacons in order for their owners to find and empty them of their various catch (I can post some "nice" photos of some recovered ghost nets filled with decaying big tuna and dolphins). When these beacons get damaged the nets are lost and thus become "automated fishing machines"

I´ve never liked ghost stories, and this was a horrible story. But unlike usual ghost stories I want to hear more of these ones. I want to learn so I can help and do something about it.

This is a really sad story. I pity the innocent animals that are killed by these ghost nets. People should be more responsible. They should think of the consequence of letting these nets just fall into the oceans. What if by any chance it is not an animal that is trapped in one of these nets? What if it was a human being?

Just be more careful

My MSc Dissertation will be on the beach evidence of ghost nets. Selkie at heart I look out at the ocean and feel home sick, as my home is made sick by pollution and waste.