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Week 2 reflection

 For week number 2, Sam and I mostly stayed local. Hoping we could catch a fish so we could study it and see first hand what type of micro plastics enter the fish we caught. Mostly just to get a feeling of accomplishment, and to have the evidence that fish really are effected by micro plastics, and we got to prove it. On Monday, Sam and I pretty much went fishing the whole day in order to receive and study the information we desired, we fished on land at numerous different locations from around 10-3, then later went out fishing with kayaks hoping that would give guys a better chance. We were out there for a long time to the point where it was pitch black out and paddling through a rain storm, not what we had in mind. On Tuesday we went to Newport Rhode Island to catch a nationally broadcasted boat race that works with the pollution of the ocean and the problems with micro plastics, we were able to read all about the focuses these boats have and what their mission is for helping and stu
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Week 2, day 4

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Week 2, day 3

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 Today Sam and I traveled over to WHOI again to meet with a doctor, Dr. Moore. Dr. Moore is not in the field that we are researching, micro plastics, but he still works with apart of our project, pollution. He researches the pollution and how it affects whales, specifically right whales, and how they get affected by lobster and snow crab traps and lines. He had a lot to say about how close right whales are getting to becoming extinct, he expressed serious sadness because he’s been working on this issue for over 30 years and as Dr. Moore puts it “it hasn’t gotten better the way it’s supposed to” the reason he was so down about this is because humans are the ones who are ruining this beautiful animals existence, with not only the brutal cruelty of the traps and lines, but mostly the propellers from ships. These cause most the deaths of whales, and also, starvation, because of climate change and water temperature change. Back to the traps and lines, the reason this pollution is so harmful
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Week 2, day 2

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 For day 2 Sam and I set off to Newport Rhode Island for a nationally broadcasted boat race, the reason we went to this boat race is because of one of our mentors, Jen Mccann, told us to come when we visited URI. So once we got there, there was a whole festival going on with food trucks, exotic cars on display ( which sam and I found very intriguing ), helly hanson shops because it was sponsored by them, and then more massive shops for the boat racing. We were able to see the boats that were docked and didn’t get to see any thay were coming in, which would’ve been really cool because they are super large sailboats that are modified to go extremely fast to the point where they hover over the water. it’s actually incredible. Anyways the whole reason Jen invited us was because all the ships during the race ( I should mention that these ships go around the world in the span on a few months, and newport was just a destination ) these ships during the race all have a purpose for the environm
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Week 2, Day 1

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  https://share.icloud.com/photos/018d3WEURvSAtbBUrsDkl90dg   I forgot to add that we also went fishing off of a bridge for about an hour to an hour and a half. which means i messed up my times, we left the first place we went to at about 12 after getting there at around 10, then after leaving the bridge at around 1:30pm we came home for a little then went off at around 4 and were out on the water for about 4-5 hours like i said in the video and got back home at around 9:15.  here are some photos from today - 
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week 1 reflection

 This week, Sam and I were traveling a lot to go meet up with people we reached out to months back and we also stayed local this week a couple of days and did some fishing and also did some beach cleaning. On Monday, Sam and I didn't have anything scheduled so we decided to go to numerous different beaches and clean up the beaches, specifically looking for plastics and fishing nets, which we were successful with. At the end of the day we gathered a lot of trash, separated the trash into separate piles to show the diversity, and then took a video of it for our blog. The next day, Tuesday, we went to the store and bought fishing gear, after about an hour we went to the ocean off a spot Sams mother recommended and attempted to catch a fish for about 2-3 hours, that didn't end up working out very well so we went to a different spot and tried there for about 2 more hours and had no luck at all. Later that night we went out and went fishing one more time at a place near Sams house an
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Day 5

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