Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 2021 Marine Debris Mission
Check out these photos from the mission to remove and assess marine debris in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project diver Kristen Kelly cuts a large derelict fishing net off the reef as NOAA diver...
NOAA diver Ari Halperin poses with a derelict fishing net found at Holaniku (Kure Atoll). Credit: NOAA Fisheries/James M...
3,170 lb of derelict fishing nets removed from the reef are craned out of the small boat at Manawai (Pearl and Hermes At...
The Marine Debris team poses with a large glass fishing float found in a net at Manawai (Pearl and Hermes Atoll). Credit...
Marine Debris team removes shoreline marine debris at Holaniku (Kure Atoll). Credit: PMDP/Kevin O’Brien.
The “Sand Highway” at Manawai (Pearl and Hermes Atoll). Credit: NOAA Fisheries/James Morioka.
Marine Debris Mission Update: Resident spinner dolphins guide the Marine Debris boat to the survey site at Manawai (Pear...
The Marine Debris team cuts a large net into manageable pieces at Southeast Island, Manawai (Pearl and Hermes Atoll). Cr...
Ariel Halperin conducts Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry surveys of a reef to study what type of successional change...
NOAA Coxswain William Reich and divers Rebecca Weible and Alika Garcia survey and find a large derelict fishing net at K...
NOAA Coxswain Ariel Halperin and Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project’s Kevin O’Brien crane a large load of derelict ...
NOAA Coxswains James Morioka, Rebecca Weible, and Andrew Gray pose with their boats full of derelict fishing nets remove...
The marine debris team surveys plastics and other debris along the shoreline of Kamole (Laysan Island). Photo credit: NO...
James Morioka carefully removes a derelict fishing net from the reef at Hōlanikū (Kure Atoll). Photo credit: NOAA Fisher...
VH26, a 5-year-old female Hawaiian monk seal, was entangled in derelict fishing rope at Hōlanikū (Kure Atoll). Photo cre...
Trained staff among the marine debris team safely approach Hawaiian monk seal VH26 to remove derelict fishing rope from ...
VH26, a 5-year-old female Hawaiian monk seal, swims freely after the marine debris team disentangled her from derelict f...
A Hawaiian monk seal is resting in a large derelict fishing net at Southeast Island, Manawai (Pearl and Hermes). This se...
The team takes a well-earned rest after removing close to 124,000 pounds of marine debris. Photo credit: NOAA Fisheries/...
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