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Article: Fishing line to be recycled.(Strictly Business)
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 2, 2008
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MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST -- The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR), along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Coastal Conservation Association and Mississippi Wildlife Federation, are launching the state's first large-scale monofilament, or fishing line, recycling program.
Forty-five outdoor recycling tubes are being placed at piers and boat launches throughout the three coastal counties in the campaign to reduce dangerous marine debris.
"Monofilament poses an entanglement hazard for all marine life," says Wesley Devers, DMR marine fisheries scientist. "Plus it causes 'extensive damage to boat motors and water intakes ...