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>On July 7th at 7:30pm Team Marine attended a sustainable seafood event held by Zocalo at the Skirball Center. Food critic Jonathan Gold, Heal the Bay’s president Mark Gold (Jonathan’s brother), Providence executive chef Michael Cimarusti, and Santa Monica Seafood’s Logan Kock discussed whether seafood will one day become a delicacy due to increasing fishing pressures on some of the world’s not only finest fish but also some of the most important fishes to our oceans. It was fascinating how those four experts were able to dissect the topic in both scientific and basic terms so people of all ranges of knowledge on the subject could comprehend the situation we are facing as an ever-increasing fish-eating culture.

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Come show your support of
banning plastic bags in California by dressing up as a Bag Monster on August
12 @ Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco!

http://bagmonster.blogspot.com/2010/07/we-need-bag-monster-volunteers-join-us.html

>This 4th of July Team Marine participated in Santa Monica’s Annual 4th of July Parade. We were asked by Heal the Bay, the Grand Marshall this year, to march alongside them through the streets of downtown Santa Monica until we reached the beach. It was an awesome experience and an honor to get to help lead the parade with Heal the Bay. Heal the Bay’s president, Mark Gold, was there with his whole family and it was great getting a chance to talk to him. Plastic Bag Man made an appearance along with various sea creatures like lobsters and sea jellies. Assemblywoman Julia Brownley also came to support her plastic bag ban and Team Marine got to meet her (some for the second time) and take a picture with her! Overall it was a perfect start to our 4th of July!

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A big hello from Team Marine to all of our readers! Sadly we’ve all been very busy this summer, and unable to blog regularly. We will be updating you all on all of our activities we have already completed this summer, starting with our first beach cleanup.

By invitation of Sara Bayles, Team Marine attended a beach cleanup at Santa Monica’s lifeguard tower 26 in honor of International Surfing Day, on June 20th, 2010. Close to 40 others accompanied Team Marine in the cleanup, collecting 71.7 pounds of trash from the seemingly clean Santa Monica Beach spot. All that attended were entered into raffles for surfboard demos, shirts, and other prizes, and were provided with a great breakfast of pastries, bagels, and drinks. Participants also competed for prizes for oddest object collected, heaviest object collected, most trash collected, etc. It seemed that Kou won most of them, collecting the most and finding a candle in the shape of a naked woman which was voted the oddest object of the day. We want to give a big thanks to Sara Bayles and Mike Takahashi for organizing, as well to the sponsors of the cleanup including Surfrider, Arbor, and Aqua Surf School.