“Fishing nets account for 46 percent of the trash [within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch], with the majority of the rest composed of other fishing industry gear, including ropes, oyster spacers, eel traps, crates, and baskets.”
If you still eat seafood, please consider cutting it out completely.
The shit disabled people were given for pushing back against the single use plastic straws (that make up 0.003% of plastic in the oceans) ban because it’s a massive accessibility issue, while we were pointing statistics like this one in OP out and hearing crickets, tells me you shouldn’t hold your breath…