The Newcastle researcher turning ocean plastic into a dolphin rescue strategy

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Gillnets catch dolphins by accident. The nylon mesh hangs nearly invisible in the water, and dolphins’ echolocation, the system they rely on to navigate and hunt, can fail to detect it. The filaments may produce no detectable echo, or the dolphins may detect something but not recognize it as […] The post The Newcastle researcher turning ocean plastic into a dolphin rescue strategy first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.