Sustainability

Ghost Gear Fund delivers results

2021-12-06T12:00:00

Plastic pellets at Ocean Legacy Depot. Photo: Fisheries & Oceans Canada

Canada’s Minister for Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Joyce Murray, has highlighted that during the past two years, the Ghost Gear Program has helped remove approximately 739 tonnes of abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear from Canada’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

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