In response to the threat of submerged marine debris in the Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama coastal zones, NOAA's Gulf of Mexico Marine
Debris Project team is developing interactive maps from hydrographic
surveys of debris left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A
collaborative effort among NOAA's Marine Debris Program, Office of
Response and Restoration and Office of Coast Survey, the team is working
with the United States Coast Guard and other federal and state agencies,
including Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, to ensure
coordination of ongoing recovery efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. To
access scalable maps indicating debris location and abundance, please
go to http://gulfofmexico.marinedebris.noaa.gov.
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