Ghost fishing
![Ghost fishing: a shark investigating a fish caught in lost fishing gear underwater](https://images.prismic.io/sketchplanations/2f48cca8-28fc-4ce1-b098-35b340078073_157873514946.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&w=3840&q=50)
Ghost fishing is when lost or abandoned fishing gear continues to catch fish. And those who are caught attract larger predators who can also get caught.
Find out more: ghostdiving.org
Also see Bycatch—other stuff you caught while trying to catch something else.
And quite different from ghost cooking—the art of cooking leaving a sparkling, untouched kitchen.
Nurse shark drawn using How to draw a grey nurse shark.
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