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Article: Ma'ama I Ke Kai.
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- Coast Guard Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Have you ever thought about what happens to trash that is thrown overboard? Where does it end up? What harm could it really do? Well, Hawaiian's have a saying, Ma'ama I Ke Kai--Take care of our ocean. It is in this spirit that the Coast Guard teamed up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Hawaii's Sea Grant Program for the past five years to clean-up harmful marine debris from the ocean.
This year, crews from the Coast Guard cutters Kukui and Walnut returned home to Honolulu in late September 2005, with more than 42,000 pounds of debris found upon atolls located within the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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