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Health & Fitness

20 Ways to Care for the Coast

Summer is over, but we can still enjoy and protect our beaches, coastal areas, and oceans.

  1. Go for a walk on the beach.
  2. Clean the beach every time you visit.
  3. Protect and respect the dunes- they protect us!
  4. Teach your children about the sea.
  5. Support Marine and Environmental Education in our schools.
  6. Join the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation.
  7. Learn about marine life by a visit to the Long Island Aquarium.
  8. Only purchase sustainable seafood and ocean products.
  9. Don’t buy shark fin soup, shark cartilage capsules, coral jewelry, or (sea) snake oil remedies.
  10. Try BayScaping- go organic! 
  11. Keep your septic system in good working order.
  12. Become a SCUBA diver, learn to surf, teach a kid to fish.
  13. Don’t put toxic household substances or other contaminants down your drain or in storm drains. Use the towns STOP days to dispose of harmful pollutants.
  14. Use pump out boats or stations- never discharge sewage into our waters.
  15. While boating, watch out for sea turtles, whales, and other marine life.
  16. Go on a whale-watching trip.
  17. Join an environmental organization.
  18. Support clean renewable energy. Go solar!
  19. Use less plastic. Reduce- reuse-recycle.
  20. Remember- everything ends up in the sea- eventually.
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