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WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers using satellites and aircraft have located a concentration of lost or abandoned fishing nets that drift through the oceans posing a danger to fish and other wildlife.
Now that they have confirmed the location of the nets, the researchers are trying to determine the best way to clean them up and to arrange funding for the effort, James Churnside of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday.
"There is a lot more trash out there than I expected," said Churnside, a researcher with the NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory in Boulder, Colo.
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