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On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.
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Fish Get Risky Around Oil

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Three gray fish swim in front of a large coral head.
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How Laws Around the World Help Improve Ocean Health

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A screenshot from the video showing collection of nets.
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Turning Nets Into Carpet

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A tiny piece of plastic photographed by a scanning electron micrograph.
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A Microbial Reef

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About a 300 foot long gill net found abandoned on a shallow reef in the surf zone on Oahu, Hawaii. The net had trapped parrotfish, wrasses, goatfish, surgeonfish, coral crabs, spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and other fish that had decayed beyond identifi
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Discarded Gillnet Traps Fish

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A photo of plastic trash floating in the water, taken from below the surface.
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Witness to a Plastic Invasion

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Mark Dodd, a wildlife biologist from Georgia's Department of Natural Resources, surveying oiled sargassum seaweed in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
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The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Two Years Later

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Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) is a slow-growing and long-lived seagrass native to the Mediterranean.
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Bugs and Slugs: The Hidden Secret to Healthy Seagrasses

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A photo of plastic trash floating in the water, taken from below the surface.
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Marine Debris

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corals of many colors in the deep sea
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Deep Gulf Restoration After a Monumental Oil Spill

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Henry the Fish is made completely out of colorful plastic that washed up on Oregon beaches.
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Washed Ashore: From Beach Trash to Ocean Art

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Tiny bits and pieces of plastic can be found throughout the ocean, like these collected from the open ocean by net.
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The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem

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