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Unnamed GPS Device on Ghost Nets

Remediation Strategy
Collection
Plastic Type
Macroplastics
Invention Category
Detection Aids
Used?
Yes
Included in analysis?
No
Location Invented
United States
Year*
2019
Description

Vessels place GPS units on ghost nets to mark them for collection.

 

* Year designates the year invented; if the year invented was unavailable, the earliest year that an article about the technology was published was used.