Discarded Plastic Bags And Other Debris Threaten Marine Life

Eric Solomon sees the tragedies all the time: birds with their wings and legs tied together with plastic six-pack rings; a sea turtle slowly starving to death with plastic bags filling its stomach; a sea lion with fishing line cutting into its neck flesh. "It's kind of gruesome," said Solomon, the Vancouver Aquarium's vice-president of conservation, research and education. "These animals don't have the ability to defend themselves from various kinds of trash that we're constantly throwing at them." But he and his colleagues have learned to channel their anger and frustration into ways of helping, such as the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup Sept. 15-23...