Baltic Sea recovery demonstrates impact So far, WWF Germany has manually sifted through images captured by a side-scan sonar and recovered 33 tonnes of nets from the Baltic Sea.

Melanie Nakagawa, Chief Sustainability Officer, Microsoft, says:“ AI is making the invisible visible.“ Ghost nets, or abandoned fishing gear, drift silently through our seas and oceans, entangling over 500 species – from turtles to sharks to whales.“ These nets can take centuries to decompose and locating them has long been a nearimpossible task.”

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