The Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI) is the only cross-sectoral alliance dedicated to solving the problem of abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) – widely referred to as “ghost gear” – around the world. The GGGI brings together more than 100 members from numerous stakeholder groups, including 15 national governments as well as representatives from civil society, the private sector, public agencies, academia, intergovernmental organizations, and others from across the fishing industry to tackle ghost gear at a global scale. Since its founding in 2015, the GGGI has worked to implement a wide variety of preventative, mitigative and curative approaches to ghost gear, shaping fisheries management policy and building the evidence base around the prevalence and impact of this threat. To further progress on ghost gear prevention and mitigation, particularly at regulatory levels, WWF and GGGI commissioned Ocean Outcomes (O2) to research best examples of legislation that can drive implementation of ALDFG best practice and develop recommendations of key components of effective legislation that could help guide ALDFG policy outreach strategies moving forward. This report describes the approach to and results from the requested research, including associated context (e.g. enabling conditions) and key takeaways, and provides recommendations on how legislation and related instruments might be used to help drive best practice with regard to fishing gear management, and to minimize ALDFG and its impacts.