Seafloor litter - Fishing related items density normalized per km² 2011/2021 v2021
sl_fishing
Short description
This visualization product displays fishing related items density per trawl. EMODnet Chemistry included the collection of marine litter in its 3rd phase. Since the beginning of 2018, data of seafloor litter collected by international fish-trawl surveys have been gathered and processed in the EMODnet Chemistry Marine Litter Database (MLDB). The harmonization of all the data has been the most challenging task considering the heterogeneity of the data sources, sampling protocols (OSPAR and MEDITS protocols) and reference lists used on a European scale. Moreover, within the same protocol, different gear types are deployed during fishing bottom trawl surveys. In cases where the wingspread and/or the number of items were unknown, data could not be used because these fields are needed to calculate the density. Data collected before 2011 are affected by this filter. When the distance reported in the data was null, it was calculated from: - the ground speed and the haul duration using this formula: Distance (km) = Haul duration (h) * Ground speed (km/h); - the trawl coordinates if the ground speed and the haul duration were not filled in. The swept area is calculated from the wingspread (which depends on the fishing gear type) and the distance trawled: Swept area (km²) = Distance (km) * Wingspread (km) Densities have been calculated on each trawl using the following computation: Density of fishing related items (number of items per km²) = ∑Number of fishing related items / Swept area (km²) Percentiles 50, 75, 95 & 99 have been calculated taking into account data for all years. The list of selected items for this product is attached to this metadata. Information on data processing and calculation is detailed in the attached methodology document. Warning: the absence of data on the map doesn't necessarily mean that they don't exist, but that no information has been entered in the Marine Litter Database for this area.
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CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Spatial extent
['-15.837', '30.56527', '36.0013', '61.7136']
Type
series
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Keywords
/Human Activities/Pollution ; Thèmes Sextant ;

Oceanographic geographical features ;

Litter abundance and type ; Sea-floor litter abundance ;

Arctic Ocean ; Mediterranean Sea ; Black Sea ; Baltic Sea ; North Sea ; Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W) ;

EMODnet Chemistry ;

sediment ;

Marine litter ;

Data ; Mission Atlantic - Resources ;

Celtic Seas ; Mission Atlantic - Case Studies ;

WP4 Benthic Mapping ; Mission Atlantic - Work Package ;

/Environment/Pollution ; Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters ;

Spatial data products ; Mission Atlantic - Data type (DMP) ;

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National Marine Fisheries Research Institute
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Thünen-Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries (TI-OF)
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The data used as input for this product have been extracted from the EMODnet Chemistry Download Service: https://emodnet-chemistry.maris.nl/search