Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the north pacific subtropical gyre

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• who: Laurent Lebreton from the Zealand Wageningen have published the article: Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
• what: While the oceanographic expedition retrieved a majority of nets and ropes, the authors focused the analysis on the hard plastics fraction that can carry evidence of their age and geographical origins. The authors represented inputs for the nine main categories of fishing techniques reported globally (drifting longlines, seiners, trawlers, pole and line, trollers, fixed gear, dredge fishing, squid jigger and, unknown . . .
  

   

  

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