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A volunteer sorts marine debris at a table.

A dive crew transporting derelict fishing gear back to shore after a removal expedition.

Naguabo fishing vessel returning to shore to offload derelict fishing gear.

Divers attach lift bags to remove marine debris, including lawn chairs and galvanized metal, from Coki Beach, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Eckerd College students sorting through debris collected during a beach clean-up.

Marine debris collected from the 2018 Great Mangrove Cleanup.

In 2018, 126 volunteers worked to remove more than 3,000 lbs of trash from mangrove shorelines of the St. Thomas East End Reserves, a marine protected area on St. Thomas Island.

University of the Virgin Islands Master’s of Marine and Environmental Science alumna, Kyle Jerris, sorts marine debris at the 2018 Great Mangrove Cleanup on St. Thomas.

An Eckerd College student with a reusable tumbler.

Removing dock debris, with large construction equipment, left in the wake of Hurricane Florence.