Nonprofit hosts ‘ghost trap’ rodeo: A fishing tournament for cleaning abandoned fishing gear out of the water

Florida native Neill Holland became a charter captain at age 18. In 2015, after traveling internationally for a decade, he returned to St. Petersburg, Florida, to resume his fishing charter operation with his partner Danielle Dawley.

Time and again on their charters, Dawley and Holland came across derelict traps, also known as ghost traps.

Ghost traps are fishing traps that have been swept away in storms and currents or simply abandoned over time…

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