Taking on a scourge of the seas: ghost nets.

Throughout the world’s oceans, a silent plague is snaring marine life and smothering seafloors. Ghost nets — commercial fishing nets that are left behind or lost — can drift for thousands of miles, injuring or killing fish or whales that get tangled in them. Now, a small army is being recruited to help remove them wherever they’re found.

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