Paul Ashby"I don't think there's another industry that would be allowed [this] type of behavior: trash from your industry accumulates on public land, and you have no responsibility to clean it up."
'Ghost gear' piles up in the Gulf of Maine amid plastic onslaught on oceans
Abandoned fishing gear, often called "ghost gear," is breaking down in our oceans and adding to the problems brought by plastics and microplastics. But there was a recent effort to get the United Nations to enforce tougher regulations, and a coalition announced new funding to remove some debris in the Gulf of Maine. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports.