While I am smiling in the photo below, I am not at all happy to find fishing net on the beach. The reason why I am working with beach litter is not simply to clean the beach for our enjoyment, it is so that the problem of ocean pollution specifically in the form of fishing ghost nets, rope, plastic debris can be brought to the forethought of consciousness among more and more people. It is so troubling and desperately sad that the critically endangered right whale, cited in the article below, (among a long list of other marine creatures) is suffering from ingestion and entanglement in all this material which leads to painful slow death.

Please support local groups like The Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium who are dedicated to combating the these threats to our oceans. Talk about it with others. Pick up trash on the Beach. Get involved in any way you can!