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DLNR NEWS RELEASE: NEW HOTLINE ESTABLISHED TO REPORT DERELICT FISHING GEAR
Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Latest News, Newsroom
(HONOLULU) – The State and four non-profit organizations have teamed up to create a new statewide number to report marine debris. Derelict fishing gear, like nets, is responsible for entangling marine life like turtles and humpback whales.
Kristen Kelly with the DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) Protected Species Program explained, “The idea is to have people call in hazardous nets immediately. We can mount a rapid response to remove these nets from our shorelines as quickly as possible and before they drift back into the open ocean.
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Marine debris that was washed ashore covers a beach on Laysan Island in the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge. (Susan White/USFWS)
In 2020, PLOS ONE published a Collection of research entitled Plastics in the Environment, submitted to a Call for Papers on this important topic. A year later, we are checking in with some of the authors who are a part of this collection, to hear their thoughts on where this research field is headed, and what all of us can do to support their work. They discuss their motivations for going into this field in the first place, the importance of reliable data, the collaborative nature of their work, and how recycling might change in the future.
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On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan, and the tsunami that subsequently struck Japan caused catastrophic damage and loss of life. This natural disaster resulted in approximately 16,000 deaths, hundreds of thousands of evacuees, and vast devastation to buildings and infrastructure. In addition to this human loss and suffering, the tsunami substantially exacerbated a global pollution problem that threatens wildlife, the environment, the economy, navigation safety, and potentially human health: marine debris.
The tsunami carried approximately five million tons of debris from the inundation zone into the ocean, of which 70% sank close to shore. The remaining 1.5 million tons of debris drifted into the Pacific Ocean, resulting in large amounts of debris washing up on North American shores. Nat’l Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin. (NOAA),
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MMTA Removes Derelict Canoes
Mar 10, 2021
The Maine Marine Trades Association sent six volunteers on snowmobiles and snowshoes to help remove derelict canoes in the northern part of the state,
The rendezvous took place at Slaughter Pond in the
Debsconeag Lakes Wilderness Area, managed by The Nature Conservancy in the Pine Tree State’s Mount Katahdin region.
The volunteers started with a 20-mile snowmobile ride, then snowshoed more than two miles to the remote 66-acre pond in search of four unregistered fiberglass canoes.
“I had seen the canoe problem on some of our beautiful, remote wilderness ponds, and raised our hand to help,” said Sandy Keefer, MMTA executive director. “But I didn’t realize quite how bad some ponds were until I reached out to The Nature Conservancy.”