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Hard-hit fishermen turn to new catch: cleaning up marine debris from southeastern shoreline
Posted by Katie Moore on January 10, 2021 in  #LoveWhereYouLive  carolina beach  Coastal LIving  eastern north carolina  Good News  Marine Life  Wilmington NC  Wrightsville Beach
CAROLINA BEACH — Since July, a four-man crew of local commercial fisherman have switched their catch, resetting their lines on a different kind of haul: marine debris. Unlike their lifelong trade of harvesting shellfish, the crew has found stocks of marine debris are plentiful. After walking nearly all the marshes from Sneads Ferry to Zeke’s Island, the men have encountered a seemingly endless yield of abandoned marine and construction debris. Each storm and tide cycle churns up new debris for the ... read more

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