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The South African Whale Disentanglement Network (SAWDN) has its work cut out to successfully disentangle marine life such as this humpback whale from entanglement in fishing gear Photo: Simon McDonnell, NSRI.

Two per cent of all fishing gear used worldwide ends up polluting the oceans, our new research finds. To put that into perspective, the amount of longline fishing gear littering the ocean each year can circle the Earth more than 18 times.

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