When John Shaw took over as executive director of the Westport Maritime Museum in 2014, beach clean-ups practically came with the job. Walking along the
Locals and volunteers from Twin Harbors Waterkeeper and Surfrider Foundation coordinated a series of beach cleanups last year to collect marine debris and yellow ropes. From late fall 2020 to spring of 2021, almost 87,000 yellow ropes were collected from the Southwest Washington coast.