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Post by account_disabled on Dec 23, 2023 23:35:45 GMT -5
Take the North Pacific subtropical gyre an immense system of circulating ocean currents that is home to some of the oceans most enchanting wildlife with whales sharks sea turtles and fish. This open ocean ecosystem is over miles km from land. And yet it is most famous as a trash vortex a system that has trapped mindboggling quantities of human rubbish giving it another name the North Pacific Garbage Patch. In the absence of fishing many other marine animals benefit too with more food to eat healthier habitats and a lower risk of becoming bycatch Credit Getty Mobile App Development Service Images In the absence of fishing many other marine animals benefit too with more food to eat healthier habitats and a lower risk of becoming bycatch Credit Getty Images According to a study published last year more than trapped in this floating rubbish pile comes from. Socalled ghost fishing gear nets ropes and lines that continue to prove deadly to ocean wildlife long after they are discarded from the side of a fishing boat. CARBON COUNT The emissions from travel it took to report this story were kg CO. The digital emissions from this story are an estimated .g to .g CO per page view. Find out more about how we calculated this figure here. Of course in a postfishing world the existing rubbish in our seas would not just disappear.
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