Ghost fishing in European waters: Impacts and management responses

By James Brown, G. Macfadyen. 2007

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The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects (2020, background): “Man-made structures emerging from the seabed, including wrecks, also favour litter trapping (Brown and Macfadyen 2007, Mordecai et al 2011).”
Plastics, the environment and human health: current consensus and future trends (2009, background): “Discarded fishing nets result in ghost fishing that may result in losses to commercial fisheries (Moore 2008; Brown & Macfadyen 2007).”
Plastic and marine turtles: a review and call for research (2016, background): “Some nets, which may be several kilometres long, drift passively over large distances (Brown and Macfadyen, 2007; Jensen et al., 2013), eventually becoming bio-fouled by marine organisms and attracting grazers and predators, such as turtles (Matsuoka et al., 2005; Gregory, 2009; Jensen et al.,…”