Monitoring plastic ingestion by the northern fulmar Fulmarus glacialis in the North Sea

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: van Franeker, J.A., Blaize, C., Danielsen, J., Fairclough, K., Gollan, J., Guse, N., Hansen, P.-L., Heubeck, M., Jensen, J.-K., Le Guillou, G., Olsen, B., Olsen, K.-O., Pedersen, J., Stienen, E.W.M., Turner, D.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Ingestion; Monitoring; Plastics; Fulmarus glacialis; ANE; North Sea; Fulmar; Northern Fulmar
• Online Access: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=209289

The abundance of plastics in stomachs of northern fulmars from the North Sea is used in the OSPAR Ecological Quality Objective (EcoQO) for marine litter. The preliminary EcoQO defines acceptable ecological quality as the situation where no more than 10% of fulmars exceed a critical level of 0.1 g of...