They Fish for Other People's Throwbacks ; Volunteers Help Clean Up the Hackensack

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HACKENSACK Chocolate-colored, orange-beaked cormorants perched on stakes and ruffled their feathers as they watched a group of canoeists deftly maneuver their way down the Hackensack River. Hundreds of years ago, members of the Native American Lenape tribe may have paddled the same route, foraging for fish on the 41-mile- long river they called Atchensehaky.

But when these canoes launched into the river Saturday morning, those on board were fishing for garbage and a way to communicate society's impact on the environment.

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They Fish for Other People's Throwbacks ; Volunteers Help Clean Up the Hackensack

"This is a way of getting people to understand the immediate impact of the general sloppiness of society," said Bill Sheehan, leader of the Hackensack Riverkeeper organization, ...

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