Lesson 10: Ghost Gear

Ghost gear is abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear that can have detrimental impacts on marine life, particularly sea turtles. Join our CEO and founder, Martin Stelfox, as he takes you through the ways in which ghost gear has drastically increased over the years, the impacts of such gear loss, and what research is being done to tackle this issue.

 
Lesson format: Video, subtitles available in English
Lesson duration: 33 minutes
Presenter: Martin Stelfox, CEO & Founder, Olive Ridley Project
 

Further Reading

• What are ghost nets?
• Tracing the origin of olive ridley turtles entangled in ghost nets in the Maldives: A phylogeographic assessment of populations at risk
• Minimum drift times infer trajectories of ghost nets found in the Maldives
• Untangling the origin of ghost gear within the Maldivian archipelago and its impact on olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) populations
• A review of ghost gear entanglement amongst marine mammals, reptiles and elasmobranchs