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Sea Urchin (Lytechinus variegatus), with shells and beer bottle cap attached to it. Photographed in the Lake Worth Lagoon, an estuary near the Palm Beach Inlet in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
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Sea Urchin (Lytechinus variegatus) with shells, beer bottle cap and newspaper attached to it. Photographed in the Lake Worth Lagoon, an estuary near the Palm Beach Inlet in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
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Discarded rope littering a coral reef in Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Rope and fishing line trap, maim and kill thousands of marine animals worldwide every year, including whales, dolphins, sharks and sea turtles.
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Discarded rope littering a coral reef in Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Rope and fishing line trap, maim and kill thousands of marine animals worldwide every year, including whales, dolphins, sharks and sea turtles.
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Discarded shopping carts on the bottom of the Lake Worth Lagoon, an estuary near the Palm Beach Inlet in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
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Schooling Sergeant Majors (Abudefduf saxatilis) and Spottail Pinfish (Diplodus holbrooki), swarm a discarded shopping cart on the bottom of the Lake Worth Lagoon in Singer Island, Florida, USA
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Discarded shopping carts on the bottom of the Lake Worth Lagoon, an estuary near the Palm Beach Inlet in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
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Discarded rope and debris on a Palm Beach County coral reef, Florida, USA. This debris can break corals and sponges and trap sea turtles and other marine animals.
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Discarded rope and debris on a Palm Beach County coral reef, Florida, USA. This debris can break corals and sponges and trap sea turtles and other marine animals.
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Sea Urchin (Lytechinus variegatus), with discarded bottle tops and other rubbish attached. Photo taken in Lake Worth Lagoon, Singer Island, Florida, USA.
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Sea Urchin (Lytechinus variegatus), with discarded bottle tops and other rubbish attached. Photo taken in Lake Worth Lagoon, Singer Island, Florida, USA.
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Porkfish (Anisotremus virginicus), swimming over garbage dumped on a reef off Palm Beach County, Florida, USA.
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Scuba Divers picking up cans and garbage dumped on a coral reef offshore Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
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Scuba Diver with collected cans and garbage dumped on a coral reef offshore Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
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Scuba Divers picking up cans and garbage dumped on a coral reef offshore Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
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Scuba Diver with collected cans and garbage dumped on a coral reef offshore Palm Beach, Florida, USA. He is also removing an invasive introduced Volitans Lionfish (Pterois volitans), from the reef.
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Scuba Diver with collected cans and garbage dumped on a coral reef offshore Palm Beach, Florida, USA. He is also removing an invasive introduced Volitans Lionfish (Pterois volitans), from the reef.
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Scuba Diver with collected cans and garbage dumped on a coral reef offshore Palm Beach, Florida, USA. He is also removing an invasive introduced Volitans Lionfish (Pterois volitans), from the reef.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com |
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Mixed rubbish, including plastics, washed ashore on the north side of the island of Molokai, Hawaii, USA.
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Mixed rubbish, including plastics, washed ashore on the north side of the island of Molokai, Hawaii, USA.
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Mixed rubbish, including plastics, washed ashore on the north side of the island of Molokai, Hawaii, USA.
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Mixed rubbish, including plastics, washed ashore on the north side of the island of Molokai, Hawaii, USA.
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Mixed rubbish, including plastics, washed ashore on the north side of the island of Molokai, Hawaii, USA.
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Hawaiian Monk Seal (Monachus schauinslandi). This species is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean, and listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.
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Hawaiian Monk Seal (Monachus schauinslandi). This species is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean, and listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.
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Hawaiian Monk Seal (Monachus schauinslandi). This species is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean, and listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.
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Hawaiian Monk Seal (Monachus schauinslandi). This species is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean, and listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.
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Hawaiian Monk Seal (Monachus schauinslandi). This species is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean, and listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.
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Hawaiian Monk Seal (Monachus schauinslandi). This species is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean, and listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.
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Hawaiian Monk Seal (Monachus schauinslandi), mother with pup. This species is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean, and listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.
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Hawaiian Monk Seal (Monachus schauinslandi). This species is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean, and listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Hawaiian Monk Seal (Monachus schauinslandi). This species is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean, and listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Hawaiian Monk Seal (Monachus schauinslandi). This species is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean, and listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.
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Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus), in Kelp Forest (Macrocystis pyrifera). This is the state fish of California. Photo taken off Catalina Island, California, USA.
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Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus), in Kelp Forest (Macrocystis pyrifera). This is the state fish of California. Photo taken off Catalina Island, California, USA.
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Giant Black Sea Bass (Stereolepis gigas). Photo taken off Catalina Island, California, USA. East Pacific Ocean.
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Giant Black Sea Bass (Stereolepis gigas). Photo taken off Catalina Island, California, USA. East Pacific Ocean.
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Polka-dot Batfish (Ogcocephalus radiatus). Photo taken off Florida, USA.
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California Yellowtail (Seriola lalandi dorsalis). Also known as Yellowtail Amberjack or Great Amberjack. Found from southern California to the Baja California Peninsula. Photographed off Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
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California Yellowtail (Seriola lalandi dorsalis). Also known as Yellowtail Amberjack or Great Amberjack. Found from southern California to the Baja California Peninsula. Photographed off Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
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Nudibranch (Melibe engeli). This nudibranch is often sighted in beds of calcarious algae (Halimeda kanaloana). Photo taken off Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
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Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Photo taken in the Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, USA.
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Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Photo taken in the Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, USA.
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Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Photo taken in the Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, USA.
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Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Photo taken at Fish Tales, Grand Bahama Bank, Bahamas, Caribbean Sea.
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Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Photo taken at Fish Tales, Grand Bahama Bank, Bahamas, Caribbean Sea.
© Andy Murch / OceanwideImages.com |
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Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Photo taken at Fish Tales, Grand Bahama Bank, Bahamas, Caribbean Sea.
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Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), hunting for scraps in the river mouth at Hawks Nest Resort and Marina, Cat Island, Bahamas, Caribbean Sea.
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