Greenland looks for ways to bust ghost fishing gear
Lost and discarded fishing gear is an environmental and economic problem.
So-called “ghost” fishing gear may be robbing the seas around Greenland of more than three thousand tons of fish each year, at a total economic cost that amounts to 5 percent of the value of the country’s most important industry, an estimate by the research and environment ministry reckons.
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