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How lost fishing equipment affects marine, human life, environment

Fish trapped by a lost net. Marine animals get entangled in abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear (ghost gear) that eventually kills them. [Photo: Courtesy]

After casting his nets into Lake Victoria one evening, Jacob Makokha, a fisherman from Busia County, returned the following morning to find them gone.

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