Defining an assessment and monitoring strategy for marine litter in the Adriatic Sea
Working Group Meeting - 12 May 2014, Athens, Greece
Occurrence of seafloor litter in Ionian waters Preliminary results Christina Zeri chris@hcmr.gr
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
This Programme is co-funded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance
HCMR working areas in the Adriatic - Ionian waters
20 ‐800 m depth Corfu waters DeFishGear Echinades Gulf Patraikos Gulf
SE Ionian waters DeFishGear Working Group Meeting / Athens, 12 May 2014
Methodology
Echinades Gulf 10 professional trawlings 50 mm mesh size TSGML protocol TSGML protocol 2013 Patraikos Gulf 18 professional trawlings 50 mm mesh size TSGML protocol TSGML protocol
RESHIO project 1999‐2000 SE Ionian 44 experimental trawlings 22 mm mesh size Visual analysis of photos
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Benthic Marine Litter density (items/km2)
416±379 items/km2
641±579 items/km2
109 items/km2
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Amounts of ML
0.2 - 8.5 kg/trawl at Echinades Gulf 2.5 – 26.8 kg/trawl at Patraikos Gulf
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Qualitative and quantitative composition of ML Natural Products 0.2%
Patraikos Gulf Misc 7% Misc. 7%
Glass 16%
Nat. Products 0 5% 0.5% Glass 4%
Echinades Gulf Misc. 5%
Rubber 3%
Rubber 5% Metals 12%
Plastics 59%
Metals 20% Plastics 67%
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What’s in plastic
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What’ s in metals
Mostly beverage cans
P Present tb by 99 % of total metals in Patraikos Gulf 99 % of total metals in Echinades Gulf 70 % of total metals in SE Ionian
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Fisheries related litter •Fishing lines (monofilament and entangled) •synthetic ropes •fishing nets •boots •bobbins and tyres
Present by 8.7 % in Patraikos Gulf 7.8 % in Echinades Gulf 5.3 % in SE Ionian
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Sizing categories
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Persons involved : Mytilineou Chr.
Ioakeimidis Chr.
Anastasopoulou Aik.
Zeri C.
Kavadas S.
Kaberi H. Papatheodorou G. (University of Patras)
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ROV pictures in deep >900 m Ionian waters
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ROV pictures in deep >900 m Ionian waters
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