![]() Last March, during the first cleanup of the area, some 500 volunteers collected 30,000 pounds of trash in about four hours, Umpierre said. However, it was not until Doug Olander, an editor at Sport Fishing magazine, wrote about the sorry conditions of the lagoon following a kayak fishing trip here, that he garnered the support to pull off a cleanup. Israel Umpierre, who organized the event with his wife Annettte Ramirez, both attorneys, said he learned to fish in the estuary system and always wanted to give back to it. It’s a beautiful stunning mangrove forest yet it is full of trash,” added Antonio Fins, executive director of the Guy Harvey Foundation. ![]() ![]() “Here you have one of the top inland waterways in the Caribbean.
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