Plastic pollution within "The Gully" Marine Protected Area of the Scotian Shelf, Northwest Atlantic ...

• Main Authors: Kelly, Noreen, Feyrer, Laura, Whitehead, Hal
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: floating plastic debris; fragments; fibers; submarine canyon; macroplastic; microplastic; mesoplastic; temporal change; cetaceans; ingestion; Canada; The Gully; hyperoodon ampullatus; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8274607; https://zenodo.org/record/8274607

This dataset contains information on plastic particle densities, characteristics (colour, morphology), size, and polymer types collected from seawater in "The Gully" Marine Protected Area between 1990 and 2019. Also included are the characteristics, sizes, and polymer types of ingested deb...