Hawaii Pacific University researchers to trace ghost nets found on shores back to manufacturers, fisheries
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Raquel Corniuk, a research technician at Hawaii Pacific University's Center for Marine Debris Research, counts threads in a piece of rope from a ghost net at a lab in Waimanalo. HPU researchers are conducting a study that will attempt to trace derelict fishing gear that washes ashore in the islands back to the manufacturers and fisheries that it came from.
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Drew McWhirter, a graduate student at Hawaii Pacific University's Center for Marine Debris Research, pulls apart a massive entanglement of ghost nets.
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A measuring stick lays among ghost nets at Hawaii Pacific University's Center for Marine Debris Research.
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Hawaii Pacific University master's student Drew McWhirter, foreground, and Raquel Corniuk, a research technician at the university's Center for Marine Debris Research, pull apart a massive entanglement of ghost nets.
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Raquel Corniuk, a research technician at Hawaii Pacific University's Center for Marine Debris Research, stretches out ghost nets.
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Jennifer Lynch, a research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the co-director of Hawaii Pacific University's Center for Marine Debris Research, catalogs pieces of ghost nets.
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Raquel Corniuk, a research technician at Hawaii Pacific University's Center for Marine Debris Research, pulls apart a massive entanglement of ghost nets.
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Pieces of net and other fishing gear are numbered before being cataloged at Hawaii Pacific University's Center for Marine Debris Research in Kaneohe.
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Ghost nets and other debris sit in a shed at Hawaii Pacific University's Center for Marine Debris Research in Kaneohe.
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Hawaii Pacific University graduate student Drew McWhirter, left, and Raquel Corniuk, a research technician at the university's Center for Marine Debris Research, pull apart a massive entanglement of ghost nets. The two are part of a study that is attempting to trace derelict fishing gear that washes ashore in Hawaii back to the manufacturers and fisheries that it came from.
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