A young rockfish hides out in a discarded shoe, 472 meters (1,548 feet) deep
in San Gabriel Canyon, off Southern California. (Credit: ©2010 MBARI)
June 5, 2013 — Surprisingly large amounts of discarded trash end up in the ocean. Plastic bags, aluminum cans, and fishing debris not only clutter our beaches, but accumulate in open-ocean areas such as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Now, a paper by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) shows that trash is also accumulating in the deep sea, particularly in Monterey Canyon.
