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Madras HC issues notices to Centre, TN on removing ghost nets from Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve

Madurai, Jan 18 (UNI) The Madras High Court's Madurai Bench on Monday ordered notice to the Centre and Tamil Nadu government on a public interest litigation seeking to dispose of “ghost nets” (abandoned or lost fishing nets at sea) from the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice SanjIb Banerjee and Justice M.M.Sundresh passed the order in the PIL petition filed by K.Pushpavanam of Madurai, who contends that the ghost nets were responsible for trapping and killing of millions of marine species and animals every year.
The petitioner said atleast six lakh to eight lakh tones of fishing nets were either lost or abandoned in the sea every year and these ghost nets alone accounted for ten percent of the globe’s plastic pollution.
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