Last month, PCYC Yarrabah’s Youth Leadership Team (YLT) did a ReefClean with Tangaroa Blue. They removed more than 100kg of marine debris from the reef, sorting, recycling and disposing of it. The YLT worked hard, ensuring the largest marine debris haul of any ReefClean at Green Island over the past 20 years!
Some of the debris found were small bleach bottles all the way from South-East Asia. Bleach bottles are squirted into the ocean to stun exotic fish, by people hoping to capture and sell them. The bottles are discarded and wash up in a range of faraway places – including here in Queensland.
The YLT also found a tuna tracker that had come off a tuna boat and was taken back to the mainland to be reused.
Well done to our Yarrabah Youth Leadership Team!
