Chasing Down Ghost Gear Before it Hits the Reef
Chasing Down Ghost Gear Before it Hits the Reef Pictured above: A huge ghost net recovered through Project ReCon, which reuses lost GPS buoys to track ghost gear. Tangaroa Blue Foundation and the Pacific Community (SPC) have entered into a new collaboration through a pilot project to recover dFADs that have been lost from the international purse seine fishing grounds and drifted into the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). SPC, in collaboration with Satlink and partner fishing companies (the American
30 October 2025