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Dumped and discarded: The fishing nets that threaten Nigeria’s marine life
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Dumped and discarded: The fishing nets that threaten Nigeria’s marine life
The riverbanks of Okerenkoko in the Niger Delta are littered with broken fishing nets. Fishers in this major fishing community in the city of Warri, southern Nigeria, may hope they will drift away and eventually disappear, out of sight and out of mind. But they don’t. The nets become “ghost gear”, continuing to trap marine life long after it has been abandoned, lost or simply discarded. Gillnets – often characterised as the most environmentally …
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