Marine debris ingestion by Southern Giant Petrels and its potential relationships with fisheries in the Southern Atlantic Ocean

• Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Main Authors: Copello, Sofía, Quintana, Flavio Roberto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Southern Ocean; Patagonia; Argentina; Argentine; Giganteus; Burton; Giant Petrel; Giant Petrels; Macronectes giganteus; Marion Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/102466

The quantity of litter in the worlds oceans has been steadily increasing over the years. Within the Southern Ocean, the amount of debris increased 100-fold during the early 1990s (Barnes, 2002) and fisheries appear to be the greatest single source (Burton and Riddle, 2001). The composition of floati...