Tony Wu / A tangle of fishing nets, lines, hooks and other garbage found floating in the Indian Ocean. There was a small community of fish associated with this trash, but also fish that had been entangled and k...

Laurent Geslin / Plastic bottles and other pollutants floating on the surface, Lake of Geneva, France. March 2008.

Angelo Gandolfi / Ray (Raja sp.) fish catch and plastic water bottles on a small fishing boat, Mediterranean sea. 'By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than there is fish' Ellen McArthur Foundation

Pete Oxford / Large heap of plastic bottles for recycling, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, plastic is crushed and returned to mainland Ecuador for recycling

Sue Daly / Plastic bag floating in the sea, resembling a jellyfish swimming Dangerous to sea turtles

Franco Banfi / Sperm Whale(Physeter macrocephalus) playing with plastic bag, Vulnerable (IUCN), Pico Island, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic Ocean

Juergen Freund / Outrigger boats catch Yellowfin tuna fishing with hook and line. Catching a Yellowfin tuna, these fishermen fish near a fish attracting device (FAD) or rumpon, attached to a raft or rakit some 100 km...

Jordi Chias / Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) trapped in an abandoned drifting net, Balearic Channel, Mediterranean sea.

Jordi Chias / Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) trapped in a drifting abandoned net, Mediterranean Sea. (Winner of the One Earth Award, WPY Competition 2010 )

Michael Pitts / Hawaiian monk seal caught in fishing tackle off Kure Atoll, Pacific Ocean. The seal was subsequently freed and released by the photographer.

Espen Bergersen / Dead bird possibly Black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) caught in discarded fishing net, Rebbenesoya, Troms, Norway, April.

Danny Green / Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) caught in plastic cable, Sule Skerry, Scotland, UK, July