From the bottom of Issyk-Kul, nets measuring the length of three football fields were retrieved
The agency specified that if all the nets were connected in a single line, their length would equal three football fields.
“These inconspicuous ‘traps’ have been harming fish and polluting the lake's ecosystem with plastic for many years,” the Ministry of Nature noted.
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