Overview of the marine litter status in the Atlantic Area: beach, floating and seabed litter

CleanAtlantic is an INTERREG Atlantic Area Programme project that aimed at protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Atlantic Area by improving capabilities to monitor, prevent and remove (macro) marine litter. Besides, the project also contributed to raise awareness and change attitudes...

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Autores: Gago, Jesús, González-Nuevo, Gonzalo, Soliño, Lucía, Pérez, Patricia, Lacroix, Camille, André, Silvère, Barry, Jon, Russell, Josie, Martínez, Roi, Le-Moigne, Morgan, Brun, Melanie, Galgani, François
Tipo de recurso: otro
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/321947
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/321947
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Marine litter
Medio Marino
Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo
litter
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Sumario:CleanAtlantic is an INTERREG Atlantic Area Programme project that aimed at protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Atlantic Area by improving capabilities to monitor, prevent and remove (macro) marine litter. Besides, the project also contributed to raise awareness and change attitudes among stakeholders and to improve marine litter managing systems. To achieve these aims, the work was organised in 8 work packages. The present deliverable aims at synthesizing the main results obtained on the frame of the action 1 of work package 4, which focused on the Regional characterisation of marine litter in the Atlantic Area. With this purpose, an overview of marine litter status in beach, floating and seabed compartments in the Atlantic Area is presented. Additionally, the major key findings, gaps on monitoring and research as well as potential improvements and recommendations are identified. Links to the complete dedicated reports for each compartment are included in the references section. Also, an interactive map for spatial visualization of data on beach, floating and seabed litter composition and abundance in the Atlantic Area was created and is presented at the end of this report.