ReportMan-made debris on the Bering Sea floor☆
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Fishing plastics: A high occurrence of marine litter in surf-zone trammel nets of Southern Brazil
2021, Marine Pollution BulletinFrist observation and effect of fishery of seabed litter on sea bed by trawl survey Korea waters
2021, Marine Pollution BulletinCitation Excerpt :An estimated 90,000 t of derelict fishery gears are dumped annually in the coastal seas of Korea causing damage to the catch quantity valued at about 380 billion KRW (Cha et al., 2014). Despite the significance of seabed litter, studies on fishing gear management associated with trawl fishing, deposited derelict fisheries gears collection, and seabed plastics characterization (Lee et al., 2007; Kim et al., 2010; Kim et al., 2011; Cha et al., 2014) and there are few reports on plastics present on the seabed (Feder et al., 1978) are limited. At present, few data are available to quantify litter distribution and characteristics in the near and East, West and South sea around Korea.
Changes in abundance and composition of anthropogenic marine debris on the continental slope off the Pacific coast of northern Japan, after the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake
2015, Marine Pollution BulletinCitation Excerpt :Efforts to address concerns about marine debris have focused primarily on monitoring surveys and clean-up of the sea surface, shorelines and seafloor areas accessible to snorkelers (Watters et al., 2010). For deeper waters, abundance and composition of benthic debris have been assessed mainly using bottom trawl survey or echo data using acoustic devices in various fishing or non-fishing areas of Mediterranean, Bering, Pacific and Atlantic waters (Jewett, 1976; Feder et al., 1978; Bingel et al., 1987; June, 1990; Galgani et al., 1995, 1996; Hess et al., 1999; Stefatos et al., 1999; Backhurst and Cole, 2000; Galgani et al., 2000; Moore and Allen, 2000; Stevens et al., 2000; Acha et al., 2003; Kuriyama et al., 2003; Ohtomi et al., 2004; Lee et al., 2006). Studies on the abundance and distribution of deep water benthic debris were reviewed and applied in Spengler and Costa (2008), and subsequent studies based on bottom trawls and visual observations using video have increased as standard methods of large scale assessments covering extensive geographic areas (Keller et al., 2010; Ramirez-Llodra et al., 2011, 2013; Pham et al., 2013, 2014; Debrot et al., 2014; Vieira et al., 2014).
Spatial pattern and weight of seabed marine litter in the northern and central Adriatic Sea
2015, Marine Pollution BulletinCitation Excerpt :Conversely, hooks and lines mainly catch plastic bags (Nash, 1992). As most of these materials tend not to be decomposed or destroyed easily, it is not surprising that the 70%, 57%, and 41% of benthic trawls, respectively in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea, contained litter (Jewett, 1976; Feder et al., 1978; Galil et al., 1995). On the other hand, fishing also contributes to increase the amount of litter in the oceans.
Increase of litter at the Arctic deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN
2012, Marine Pollution BulletinCitation Excerpt :comm.). Elsewhere, areas of high fishing intensity were characterised by increased quantities of litter (Feder et al., 1978; Hess et al., 1999; Jewett, 1976; Pruter, 1987). However, it is also possible that the litter observed on the deep seafloor of HAUSGARTEN entered the sea far away, for example in the NE Atlantic, and was transported north as flotsam with the North Atlantic drift and the West Spitsbergen Current.
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This study was supported under contract No. 03-5-022-56 between the University of Alaska and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce to which funds were provided by the Bureau of Land Management through an interagency agreement.