Wuli’s post hits the problem exactly.
Ocean Clean even admits that the best way to clean this up is prevention. Once it is in the ocean it is a broad problem to resolve.
I am glad that they tried the net solution, but if you look at the picture at the top of the article what you see is the flotsam from fishing fleets - because what they leave behind is big enough to be seen.
It is kind of like calling part of outer space “crowded”, such as various satellite orbits. If you visited that orbit it is almost all vacuum.
if you look at the picture at the top of the article what you see is the flotsam from fishing fleets -
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Mainly the 750,000 boat PLAN maritime fishing fleet (armed) which, when clustered at anchor, can literally turn the ocean into shit soup. Where ever they go, they strip the ocean of all life.
They are the worst of the worst, without equal from any nation.