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About a 300 foot long gill net found abandoned on a shallow reef in the surf zone on Oahu, Hawaii. The net had trapped parrotfish, wrasses, goatfish, surgeonfish, coral crabs, spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and other fish that had decayed beyond identifi
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Discarded Gillnet Traps Fish

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A Yellow spotted trevally struggles to free itself from a fisherman's discarded net. Discarded nets continue to fish long after they have been lost, devastating the local fish populations and choking the life out of the reef on which it becomes entangled
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Trevally Dying in Ghost Net, Oman

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Instead of creating sculptures like this one, volunteers with Debris Free Bonaire collect and throw out trash. As of May 2014, the group has removed more than 5,650 cubic feet of marine plastic from Bonaire's eastern coastline!
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Cleaning Bonaire's Beaches

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A plastic bag floats at sea.
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Plastic Bag Bans Work

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These cells are from a pygmy sperm whale in a laboratory culture dish. The red dyed cell are forming into fat cells after exposure to endocrine disruptors.
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Cells Get Fat

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Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead scientist for the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, releases a seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) in the Louisiana marsh.
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Sabrina Taylor Releases a Sparrow

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This rainbow sheen on the sea surface is what it looks like when the oil bubbles make it to the sea surface.
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Oily Sheen On Sea Surface

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After the Japanese tsunami in 2011 over 280 Japanese species floated to the West Coast of the United States on marine debris. 
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Invasive Species Hitch a Ride on Tsunami Debris

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Ocean plastic, and marine debris generally, comes from a variety of sources--both direct and indirect.
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Where Does Marine Debris Come From?

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The video series "It's Okay To Be Smart" takes a look at the world of single-use plastic and its impact on the ocean.
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How Much Plastic is in the Ocean?

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Afroz Shah spoke at the 2017 Earth Optimism Summit in Washington, DC about the largest beach cleanup in the world that he led on the beaches of Mumbai, India
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Afroz Shah - Earth Optimism Summit 2017

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Purple and blue thumbnail of ocean plants of some sort.
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Impacts of Marine Debris

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