Marine litter assessment in the Adriatic & Ionian seas
The "DeFishGear" report about marine litter presents an assessment s based on one-year long surveys carried out in all marine compartments in the seven countries of the Adriatic-Ionian macroregion, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Greece, Montenegro and Slovenia.More specifically:
- 180 beach transects were surveyed in 31 locations, covering 32,200 m 2 and extending over 18 km of coastline
- 66 floating litter transects were conducted with small-scale vessels covering a distance of 415 km, while a total of 9,062 km were surveyed by observers on ferries
- for the seafloor litter 11 locations were investigated with bottom trawl surveys and 121 hauls were performed, while 38 transects were performed in 10 locations with underwater visual surveys with scuba/snorkelling, thus covering a total area of 5.83 km 2 of seafloor for litter in biota 81 hauls were conducted and 614 fish individuals were studied