Tag: litter

April 2017 Strandings of pink sea fan “sea fangles” – new paper implicates marine litter

Dr Emma Sheehan, Plymouth University Marine Institute There is now about 30 days of free access to the paper https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1UpdM1R~e3ELh Animation   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9SsNb6cK7g   Protected Pink Sea Fans are mass stranding each winter entangled in marine debris. The marine debris comprises mostly fishing gear and some domestic litter. Evidence for ghost fishing causing the stranded “sea …

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The south west Fulmar project Alice Trevail

Alice Trevail 2015 Fulmar Project by Coastal Futures

From Observation to action – the impacts of lost fishing gear on grey seals Sue Sayer & Bex Allen

Sue Sayer & Bex Allen 2015 Seals & Net Entanglement by Coastal Futures