95 football fields’ worth of ghost nets removed from Marmara Sea - Türkiye News

A Turkish marine conservation group has removed an estimated 650,000 square meters of abandoned fishing gear — equivalent to roughly 95 football fields — from the Marmara Sea and other Turkish waters over the past decade, highlighting the growing threat posed by so-called “ghost nets” to marine ecosystems.

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