Seafloor litter - Trawls locations 2006/2021 v2021 ...

• Main Authors: IFREMER, SISMER, Scientific Information Systems For The SEA SISMER, Ifremer, VIGIES Information Valuation Service For Integrated Management And Monitoring, National Institute Of Oceanography And Applied Geophysics-OGS, Division Of Oceanography
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: EMODnet Chemistry 2021
• Subjects: /Human Activities/Pollution; Oceanographic geographical features; Litter abundance and type; Sea-floor litter abundance; Black Sea; Baltic Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Arctic Ocean; Northeast Atlantic Ocean 40W; North Sea; EMODnet Chemistry; sediment; Marine litter; Seafloor litter; MSFD; Maps; Oceanography; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Arctic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.13120/ee3dd868-d239-4988-9904-0164df7983c3; https://sextant.ifremer.fr/documentation/emodnet_chemistry/api/catalogue.html#/metadata/ee3dd868-d239-4988-9904-0164df7983c3

This visualization product displays the location of all the surveys present in the EMODnet marine litter database (MLDB). The different fishing gears used are represented by different colors. EMODnet Chemistry included the collection of marine litter in its 3rd phase. Since the beginning of 2018, data of seafloor litter collected by international fish-trawl surveys have been gathered and processed in the EMODnet Chemistry Marine Litter Database (MLDB). The harmonization of all the data has been the most challenging task considering the heterogeneity of the data sources, sampling protocols (OSPAR and MEDITS protocols) and reference lists used on a European scale. Moreover, within the same protocol, different gear types are deployed during fishing bottom trawl surveys. Unlike other EMODnet seafloor litter products, all trawls surveyed since 2006 are included in this map even if the wingspread and/or the distance are unknown. Only surveys with an unknown number of items were excluded from this product. More ...