Modelling the distribution of fishing-related floating marine litter within the Bay of Biscay and its marine protected areas

Sea-based sources account for 32-50 % of total marine litter found at the European basins with the fisheries sector comprising almost 65 % of litter releases. In the south-east coastal waters of the Bay of Biscay this figure approaches the contribution of just the floating marine litter fraction. Th...

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Autores: Ruiz, Irene, Abascal Santillana, Ana Julia|||0000-0002-4994-8498, Basurko, Oihane C., Rubio Compañy, Anna
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/35499
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/35499
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fishing-related floating marine litter
Bay of Biscay
Lagrangian modelling
Windage
Marine protected areas
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spelling Modelling the distribution of fishing-related floating marine litter within the Bay of Biscay and its marine protected areasRuiz, IreneAbascal Santillana, Ana Julia|||0000-0002-4994-8498Basurko, Oihane C.Rubio Compañy, AnnaFishing-related floating marine litterBay of BiscayLagrangian modellingWindageMarine protected areasSea-based sources account for 32-50 % of total marine litter found at the European basins with the fisheries sector comprising almost 65 % of litter releases. In the south-east coastal waters of the Bay of Biscay this figure approaches the contribution of just the floating marine litter fraction. This study seeks to enhance knowledge on the distribution patterns of floating marine litter generated by the fisheries sector within the Bay of Biscay and in particular on target priority Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to reinforce marine litter prevention and mitigation policies. This objective is reached by combining the data on geographical distribution and intensity of fishing activity, long-term historical met-ocean databases, Monte Carlo simulations and Lagrangian modelling with floating marine litter source and abundance estimates for the Bay of Biscay. Results represent trajectories for two groups of fishing-related items considering their exposure to wind; they also provide their concentration within 34 MPAs. Zero windage coefficient is applied for low buoyant items not subjected to wind effect. Highly buoyant items, strongly driven by winds, are forced by currents and winds, using a windage coefficient of 4 %. Results show a high temporal variability on the distribution for both groups consistent with the met-ocean conditions in the area. Fishing-related items driven by a high windage coefficient rapidly beach, mainly in summer, and are almost non-existent on the sea surface after 90 days from releasing. This underlines the importance of windage effect on the coastal accumulation for the Bay of Biscay. Only around 20 % of particles escaped through the boundaries for both groups which gives added strength to the notion that the Bay of Biscay acts as accumulation region for marine litter. MPAs located over the French continental shelf experienced the highest concentrations (>75 particles/km2) suggesting their vulnerability and need for additional protection measures.This research has been partially funded through the EU's LIFE Program (LIFE LEMA project, grant agreement no. LIFE15 ENV/ES/000252), EU’s H2020 Program (JERICO-S3 project, grant agreement No. 871153) and by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (OILHAZARD3D project, TRA2017-89164-R). This study has been conducted using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information. This is contribution number 1074 of AZTI, Marine Research, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA).ElsevierUniversidad de Cantabria20222022-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://hdl.handle.net/10902/35499Environmental Pollution, 2022, 292(A), 118216reponame:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabriainstname:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/354992026-06-02T12:39:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Modelling the distribution of fishing-related floating marine litter within the Bay of Biscay and its marine protected areas
title Modelling the distribution of fishing-related floating marine litter within the Bay of Biscay and its marine protected areas
spellingShingle Modelling the distribution of fishing-related floating marine litter within the Bay of Biscay and its marine protected areas
Ruiz, Irene
Fishing-related floating marine litter
Bay of Biscay
Lagrangian modelling
Windage
Marine protected areas
title_short Modelling the distribution of fishing-related floating marine litter within the Bay of Biscay and its marine protected areas
title_full Modelling the distribution of fishing-related floating marine litter within the Bay of Biscay and its marine protected areas
title_fullStr Modelling the distribution of fishing-related floating marine litter within the Bay of Biscay and its marine protected areas
title_full_unstemmed Modelling the distribution of fishing-related floating marine litter within the Bay of Biscay and its marine protected areas
title_sort Modelling the distribution of fishing-related floating marine litter within the Bay of Biscay and its marine protected areas
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ruiz, Irene
Abascal Santillana, Ana Julia|||0000-0002-4994-8498
Basurko, Oihane C.
Rubio Compañy, Anna
author Ruiz, Irene
author_facet Ruiz, Irene
Abascal Santillana, Ana Julia|||0000-0002-4994-8498
Basurko, Oihane C.
Rubio Compañy, Anna
author_role author
author2 Abascal Santillana, Ana Julia|||0000-0002-4994-8498
Basurko, Oihane C.
Rubio Compañy, Anna
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad de Cantabria
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Fishing-related floating marine litter
Bay of Biscay
Lagrangian modelling
Windage
Marine protected areas
topic Fishing-related floating marine litter
Bay of Biscay
Lagrangian modelling
Windage
Marine protected areas
description Sea-based sources account for 32-50 % of total marine litter found at the European basins with the fisheries sector comprising almost 65 % of litter releases. In the south-east coastal waters of the Bay of Biscay this figure approaches the contribution of just the floating marine litter fraction. This study seeks to enhance knowledge on the distribution patterns of floating marine litter generated by the fisheries sector within the Bay of Biscay and in particular on target priority Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to reinforce marine litter prevention and mitigation policies. This objective is reached by combining the data on geographical distribution and intensity of fishing activity, long-term historical met-ocean databases, Monte Carlo simulations and Lagrangian modelling with floating marine litter source and abundance estimates for the Bay of Biscay. Results represent trajectories for two groups of fishing-related items considering their exposure to wind; they also provide their concentration within 34 MPAs. Zero windage coefficient is applied for low buoyant items not subjected to wind effect. Highly buoyant items, strongly driven by winds, are forced by currents and winds, using a windage coefficient of 4 %. Results show a high temporal variability on the distribution for both groups consistent with the met-ocean conditions in the area. Fishing-related items driven by a high windage coefficient rapidly beach, mainly in summer, and are almost non-existent on the sea surface after 90 days from releasing. This underlines the importance of windage effect on the coastal accumulation for the Bay of Biscay. Only around 20 % of particles escaped through the boundaries for both groups which gives added strength to the notion that the Bay of Biscay acts as accumulation region for marine litter. MPAs located over the French continental shelf experienced the highest concentrations (>75 particles/km2) suggesting their vulnerability and need for additional protection measures.
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