As a long-tail boat arrives at a fishing village on the southern Thai island of Koh Chang, residents gather to sell their ...

In the case of the Hong Kong-based autonomous boat startup Clearbot, it was a trip to Bali, where its founders saw the extent of the plastic pollution crisis first hand. “We were on the beach ...

Combining research and industry expertise from across Europe, EU-funded project SEARCULAR is trialling circular fishing gear solutions, which, if scaled up, could prevent thousands of tonnes of marine ...

Most of the large plastic waste there comes from discarded fishing gear. And boat owners admit it will take hundreds of years to overcome a few reckless decades of using the sea as a dump.

"When in the open ocean on the boat, if we noticed rubbish ... that died from entanglement in fishing rope." It's also widely reported that ingestion of plastics has lead to the deaths of many ...