Hawai'i Wildlife Fund

on sept 19/2009 Get the Drift and Bag it! International Coastal Cleanup sponsored by the Hawai'i Wildlife fund; 69 participants 4 wheeled down to the remote Kamilo beach.
111 trashbags full; 1580 lbs. of marine debris, 2 tons of nets.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Hawaii
• hawaii wildlife fund
• kamilo
• plastic trash
• gyre
• pacific gyre
• plastic
• ocean

[888yhwoArt]

Nearly 2 tons of multiple entwined fishing nets and plastic that gets rolled up on the high tide mark during a strong storm. A small group was laboriously trying to cut it up into small pieces with knives and bolt cutters When Ron came by with his low geared monster truck and pulled this huge cancer out of the rocky shoreline.

[artistdancing]

NiCe!!!

Glad you folks are doing that!

A BiG MAHALO NUI LOA!!!

("Kona girl" for seventeen years)

;~}

[ODAfish]

Fantastic! What an awesome thing you and your volunteers did. The oceans and I thank you! Of course the bigger question is, how do we prevent these things from getting into the ocean in the first place? Stop eating fish. There are so little fish left in the ocean, we need to stop the destruction before there is nothing left. Help by enacting legislation that sets aside area's of the sea's that are Marine Protected Area's. This is where we stop fishermen from raping the planet.

Kurt Lieber