Clean Harbours Initiative: An Ocean Clean-Up Project

For 20 years, Shawn Bath dove for sea urchins, earning a living off the sea the same way he did as a commercial fisherman before the cod moratorium. While searching out the spiny edibles on the sea bottom, he often saw old tires, trash and lost or tossed fishing gear. It bothered him, but he always figured that, sooner or later, the government would initiate a clean-up effort, the same way government employees clean up the garbage on dry land.