Marine litter within the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive
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The general strategy in support to the implementation of MSFD for marine litter includes various aspects such as scientific background, monitoring strategies and protocols, definition of good environmental status and targets and support to management policies.Abstract:
One of the most evident changes in the last half-century is the ubiquity and abundance of litter in the marine environment. The EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD, 2008/56/EC) established a framework within which EU Member States shall take action to achieve the good environmental status (GES) of their marine waters by 2020. Amongst the 11 MSFD qualitative descriptors, Descriptor 10 (D 10) concerns marine litter. Here we report the general strategy in support to the implementation of MSFD for marine litter. It includes various aspects such as scientific background, monitoring strategies and protocols, definition of good environmental status and targets and support to management policies.read more
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Wind, waves, tides, and human error? Influences on litter abundance and composition on German North Sea coastlines: An exploratory analysis
Rosanna Isabel Schöneich-Argent,Frank Hillmann,Daniel Cordes,Raphael Andreas Daniel Wansing,Julian Merder,Jan A. Freund,Holger Freund +6 more
TL;DR: No clear overall pattern in litter abundance or composition could be detected and significant quantitative similarities between debris types were inconsistent, which could be reduced through hypothesis-driven monitoring with a simpler litter classification and continuous data checking.
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Transport of floating marine litter in the coastal area of the south-eastern Bay of Biscay: A Lagrangian approach using modelling and observations
Amandine Declerck,Matthias Delpey,Anna Rubio,Luis Ferrer,Oihane C. Basurko,Julien Mader,M. Louzao +6 more
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Microplastic pollution in coastal ecosystem off Mumbai coast, India.
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TL;DR: In this article, the presence of microplastic pollution in marine biota samples collected from the coastal waters of Mumbai, India has been investigated and found that MPs are anthropogenic pollutants which can adsorb toxic substances from surrounding water and absorb into the fish body.
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Modeling transport of microplastics in enclosed coastal waters: A case study in the Fethiye Inner Bay.
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