Volunteers Clean Up Two Tons of Marine Debris on Ohotsk Coast of South-Kamchatka Federal Reserve

The press service of the Kronotsky Reserve announced that volunteers collected approximately two tons of marine waste in the South-Kamchatsky federal reserve. In general, they managed to clean 4 kilometers of the Ohotsk beach coastline. The cleanup involved personnel of the Kronotsky reserve as well. 

This operation is carried out annually in three stages. Firstly, the territory is scanned with drones and the images are transmitted to IT specialists for training the AI network to detect marine trash along the coastline. Specialists then describe and document all the trash in the long-term monitoring areas and estimate the amount of residue accumulating on the coast. They also compare fresh data with past findings. On the last leg of the operation, actual removal of the trash and pollution is carried out from explored sites. 

All this work transpires as part of an investigation and cleanup research operation that allows not only decontaminating the watershed of hazardous garbage for wildlife but can potentially reveal and neutralize mounds of fishernet stumps and plastics threatening the life of sea creatures. The specialized network can detect waste by both visualizing the shores and the near parts of the Ohotsky watercourse, and even helps anticipate the required logistic resources for such site clearing in the future through algorithms.

Experts are also using sticker brands on bottles or similar items to track to see where the major load of such debris arrives upon drift. In the forthcoming stages, such particular data can help shape recommendation procedures for OOPT departments (federal conservation zone establishments) across all nations to reduce marine regions with plastic pollution. Assembling samples of debris ground and water will afterward be dispatched in Far-Eastern Regional federal university for evaluations regarding microplastic materials to ascertain any synapse between large debris swept by waves and microdebris ingested by customers, consumers, or folks on the dining table through seas caught food.