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Did you know it's illegal to pick up fishing flotsam on beaches in Maine?
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My wife will do the hard time but I'll be an accessory I guess. It's a law to protect fishing gear, but when the broken gear litters beaches, it's a law that should be broken.

We found some huge piles on Isle Au Haut this past season where rangers had rounded it up to eventually get hauled off the island. Broken buoys, twisted warp, clorox bottles, water bottles, you name it, if it's plastic, it's floating out there.

One of our bigger hauls to date.

She stores it around the yard and eventually finds uses for it.

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