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Article: LOST FISHING GEAR ANOTHER THREAT TO SOUND.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 26, 2002
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Byline: TOM COWAN AND BOB OKE Guest columnists
Picture your house littered with dangerous and rusting traps that could suffocate or kill you. That is the unfortunate home for millions of salmon, rockfish, crabs and other marine life that live in Puget Sound.
The numbers are astonishing. Puget Sound has become the final resting place for literally hundreds of tons of lost or abandoned fishing nets and lines, crab and shrimp traps and other fishing equipment, known as derelict fishing gear.
Often the fishing gear simply continues to do what it was designed for - capturing and killing fish and shellfish. In its derelict state, however, the ...