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Article: DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES, PARTNERS LAUNCH FISHING LINE RECYCLING PROGRAM
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 21, 2008
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The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources issued the following news release:
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR), along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Coastal Conservation Association and the 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. (See below for list of locations.)
"Monofilament poses an entanglement hazard for all marine life," says Wesley Devers, DMR marine fisheries scientist. "Plus it ...