WAILUA — Volunteers are needed to help remove two large fishing nets that washed onto the beach between Lydgate Beach South and Kamalani Bridge during this week’s storm. Dr. Robert Zelkovsky said the Surfrider Foundation would like to remove the
WAILUA — Volunteers are needed to help remove two large fishing nets that washed onto the beach between Lydgate Beach South and Kamalani Bridge during this week’s storm.
Dr. Robert Zelkovsky said the Surfrider Foundation would like to remove the derelict fishing nets before a large storm surge washes them back into the ocean, where it could damage the reef and endanger other ocean life.
Volunteers are asked to gather at 3 p.m. Sunday at South Lydgate. Access also is available through a dirt fishing road on the turnaround leading to Kamalani Bridge.
Zelkovsky said volunteers are asked to bring drinking water and hand tools.
“We will have gloves, bags and some tools,” he said in a news release from Kaua‘i Path. “We can take out both nets with a large crew.”
For more information, call Zelkovsky at 634-6597, or Barbara at 635-2593.
• Dennis Fujimoto, photographer and staff writer, can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 253) or dfujimoto@ thegardenisland.com.
