Drones, AI target deadly ghost nets on Australia’s remote northern coast
Big News Network, Other, 05/06/2025
The artificial intelligence-powered drones have been used to locate and remove “ghost nets” — abandoned fishing gear that threatens marine life, along the Gulf of Carpentaria coastline in northern Australia. […] Ghost nets damage marine environments in Northern Australia and are removed by Indigenous groups and non-government organizations, then burned or buried, according to separate research by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia’s national science agency, in September 2023.