Abandoned fishing nets trap thousands of turtles, dolphins and sharks in Australia's northern waters every year. Now the government is introducing a new way to track them so they can be retrieved.
Anindilyakwa sea ranger Leyton Hastings loves his job protecting his sea country around the Groote Eylandt Archipelago in the Gulf of Carpentaria.Government agencies are using new GPS trackers to help Indigenous rangers and commercial fishers recover nets
The ghost nets are abandoned fishing nets, mostly coming from Indonesia and other South-East Asian countries on ocean currents after being cut off or lost during bad weather and entanglement."The main one is the turtles getting caught up in the ghost nets and dying, getting washed up on the beach," he said.
"Those nets entangle turtles, dugongs, dolphins, and they also collect sharks and other pelagic species of fish such as grey and spanish mackrell, and any unchecked indiscriminate fishing will have some effect on the local fish stocks," he said.
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