Macroplastic entanglements on the Continuous Plankton Recorder

Observations of plastic entanglement on the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) from 1957 to 2016 in the North Atlantic and adjacent seas. The following words were used for a text search within the fault comments of the CPR database; plastic, net, line, rope, bag, fishing, twine, polyprop, monofilame...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ostle, Clare
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (DASSH) 2018
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.17031/1617
http://www.dassh.ac.uk/doitool/content/macroplastic_entanglements_on_the_continuous_plankton_recorder
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Summary:Observations of plastic entanglement on the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) from 1957 to 2016 in the North Atlantic and adjacent seas. The following words were used for a text search within the fault comments of the CPR database; plastic, net, line, rope, bag, fishing, twine, polyprop, monofilament, nylon, string to extract the observations presented here.