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Fishing nets account for 46 percent of the trash within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with the majority of the rest composed of other fishing industry gear (web.archive.org)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How is this possible given the rivers of plastic flowing out of Asian rivers? Seems like maybe a detectability issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I think more of a “coherency” issue – nets and fishing gear catch and tangle and clump and knot whereas something like bottles just bounce off each other – so unless the other plastics have become entangled in the fishing gear they don’t get counted …

also worth noting, National Geographic is now owned by Disney so coverage of certain issues might be a little “adjusted” …

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

My thought too. This is saying that at least 73% of the garbage patch is the fishing industries fault. I'm sure they contribute a lot but that's a lot a lot. Sounds like someone is trying to shift blame.