. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. in the wet sand, and I help Cathy add the bags to the pile on the shore. "Catch anything?" Bill hollers to the fishermen on the bank. One of the men nods his head left and right. Bill motions with his head toward the pile of bags. "You see all this trash we've been picking up. You're not going to leave any of yours behind, are you?" "Naw," the fisherman says, as we push off. called Anne Morriss, the coordinator for the region and also for this site cleanup. They live on the ri
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. in the wet sand, and I help Cathy add the bags to the pile on the shore. "Catch anything?" Bill hollers to the fishermen on the bank. One of the men nods his head left and right. Bill motions with his head toward the pile of bags. "You see all this trash we've been picking up. You're not going to leave any of yours behind, are you?" "Naw," the fisherman says, as we push off. called Anne Morriss, the coordinator for the region and also for this site cleanup. They live on the river a few miles away and use it for boating and skiing. The Merritts are among 20 volun- teers who came this morning to the boating access area on 87 south of Fayetteville. By early afternoon, they will have cleaned nearly 4 miles of the Cape Fear River, which feeds into the Atlantic Ocean below "I think fishermen are the worst offenders," says Mike Hillenbrand, a motorboat volunteer. "I've seen a lot of bait cans and ; A canoe volunteer, Candace Curry, is surprised by all the containers of chicken livers apparently left by fishermen who use them for bait. "You'd think they're the natural- ists,' ' she says. The canoes stay downriver during the cleanup, and the powerboats go the other way, checking back with the paddlers often to relieve them of any full trash bags. By the end of the cleanup, the group has netted more than a half-ton of debris from the river. Many things impress me about my first Big Sweep, including the at- titude of the volunteers. Most of the people don't know each other, yet they are friendly and cooperative. In their pursuit of trash—things that are often wet, filthy and heavy—they are determined and am- bitious. Volunteers pull tires and even a TV set from the water. Cathy Merritt wrestles with a hollowed-out appliance filled with mud. Even after everything I have heard about Big Sweep finds, I am un- pr
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