Environment Pollution and Control Over Ghost Net Report

Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND CONTROL OVER GHOST NET
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND CONTROL OVER GHOST NET
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Executive Summary
The report has shed light over the staggered nets which are considered as ghost nets and impact
over those marine animals which are entangled themselves and lose their life. This concept is
considered as Ghost net and by this process, some fishermen are hunting fishes and this process
is called as ghost fishing. This has impacted the environment in Australia and confronted the
consequence that has been created by those nets. In this report, coastal management
authorization and the important government policies have been discussed. These policies need to
be implemented so that clean and healthy marine atmosphere will sustain. There are certain
conferences and future terms that have been implemented in the coastal areas so that foundation
practice and best future development has prevailed for the development of the coastal areas in
Australia.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Ghost Net.........................................................................................................................................3
Ghost Fishing...................................................................................................................................4
Importance of issue..........................................................................................................................4
Coastal Management in Australia....................................................................................................5
Acts and Policies over the Ghost net in Australia...........................................................................7
SWOT on the existing Policy..........................................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
Ghost nets are one of the supreme killers in the ocean, not only these are found in a
copious manner but also they have impacted over the ocean for centuries. The materials that use
to formulate those nets are not high in quality so after being lost in the ocean plate these are
creating a problem for the marine animals. In this report, the discussion over the environmental
issue in Australia and the related problems in the coastal area of the nation has been highlighted..
There are certain environmental challenges that Australian coastal area has to face as the marine
lives are the important aspect to maintain the ecology.
Ghost Net
Ghost Net is a kind of dumped or discarded nets that have been found under the sea water
as these are got snagged on a reef and get separated from the fishing craft. These are spreading
all over the ocean and prime reason behind the hazardous situation for the marine animals. The
commercial fish stock, grabbing those fishes one at a time is the most resourceful work that
Ghost nets are doing for long. But these nets are silently hampering the ecological balance of the
coastal area of Australia (Vince and Hardesty 2017). Drivers are quite habituated with these
kinds of nets especially in the fished area. Most of the times these are tangled with rocks, metal
sheets or plants, and fishes, turtles, birds, marine mammals are caught by those nets. The
initiative is taken by the drivers to avoid this situation and a Ghost Fishing Foundation has
created in 2009 to mitigate this issue for sustainable maintenance of the sea waters and marine
lives. The process at first stared at the Dutch North Sea and then the initiation has taken placed
by the Northern Gulf Resource Management Group (mission-blue.org 2013). There are certain