German NGO Comes Up With AI-Based Tool to Find Ghost Nets

A German NGO has come up with an AI-assisted tool for finding ghost nets – the drifting, abandoned fishing gear that hoovers up sea life indiscriminately.

About 50,000 tonnes of fishing gear end up in the ocean every year, accounting for nearly a third of all ocean plastic waste. The gear gradually decomposes into microplastic, which enters the marine food chain with unknown consequences for the ecosystem (and…