Jersey Marine

"Crabs get trapped in the pots and starve to death," said John Wnek, supervisor of New Jersey's Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science, whose students are involved in a project to collect abandoned fishing gear from New Jersey's ...

In this Feb. 26, 2016 photo, Kayla Johnston, from left, Hallie Lazaro, and Molly Robinson, students at New Jersey's Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science, examine and record a discarded crab trap that was retrieved from Barnegat Bay in ...

26, 2016 photo, John Wnek, supervisor of New Jersey's Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science, holds a grappling hook he uses to retrieve discarded crab traps from Barnegat Bay in Waretown, N.J. Efforts are under way around the world ...

“Crabs get trapped in the pots and starve to death,” said John Wnek, supervisor of New Jersey's Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science, whose students are involved in a project to collect abandoned fishing gear from New Jersey's ...

26, 2016 photo, Kayla Johnston, from left, Hallie Lazaro, and Molly Robinson, students at New Jersey's Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science, examine and record a discarded crab trap that was retrieved from Barnegat Bay in Waretown, ...

26, 2016 photo, Kayla Johnston, from left, Hallie Lazaro, and Molly Robinson, students at New Jersey's Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science, examine and record a discarded crab trap that was retrieved from Barnegat Bay in Waretown, ...