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Fifty metric tons of marine debris collected from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

July 17, 2012

NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette arrived back in its homeport of Honolulu on Saturday after scientists spent a month of collected nearly 50 metric tons of marine debris in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

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