Seventeen volunteers collected 13 garbage bags of beach debris – including a discarded section of gillnet and two bags of polypropylene line – during last weekend’s beach cleanup near Battery Point.
Organizer Molly Sturdevant, a retired NOAA fisheries research biologist, said fragments of plastic items made up most of what was collected. Most debris was found in or around berms of tidal debris that build up on the south-facing cove near the point. A smaller…