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NEWS
GhostNet
Debris-tracking Buoys Deployed – 08/16/2005
News
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The first four Ghostnet debris-tracking buoys have been deployed
in the open ocean under the Ghostnet Volunteer Ship program.
The program is run by Airborne Technologies of Wasilla, Alaska
with support from NOAA Fisheries (SWFSC and PIFSC), NOAA Research,
and NOAA Satellites and Information.
[Read More]
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Alaska
Firm Goes High-tech Hunting for Lost Fishing
Nets – 06/05/2005
By
Bob Tkacz for the Alaska Journal |
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An
Alaska technology company is working with a federal
agency in an effort to remove an environmentally dangerous
and costly problem from the Pacific Ocean: abandoned
or lost fishing nets, known as ghostnets. [Read
More]
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Team
Hunts Deadly 'Ghost Nets' in the Pacific — 05/31/2005
By John Nielson for the
National Public Radio's "All
Things Considered" |
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Every year high seas fishing boats lose and abandon fishing nets
that can be miles long. These so-called ghost nets keep on
killing, sweeping up fish, turtles, seabirds and whales. Now
a team of American scientists says it has learned to track
their movements throughout the Pacific Ocean. [Listen]
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Scientist
Goes Fishing for Deadly Nets in Sea — 02/10/2005
By
Doug O' Harra for the Anchorage
Daily News |
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Wasilla pilot and high-tech entrepreneur Tim Veenstra was eating
lunch at a marine science conference in Anchorage a few weeks
ago when a buoy rang his cell phone from the middle of the
Pacific Ocean.
" I was the guy jumping up and yelling," Veenstra said recently. "My
first buoy had talked to me." [Read
More]
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" The
tagged nets will be monitored until they can be
removed from the ocean..."
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"At
this point, we're looking for additional ships
of opportunity that would be willing to take
one of our buoys, or a couple of our buoys, and if
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