Lost fishing gear is omnipresent in the marine environment. The Mediterranean acts as a hotspot for microplastics, with a dominant fraction being fibres. The origin of these fibres – fishing nets, ropes, or land-based waste water, is unknown. Fishing nets take decades to centuries to degrade in the marine environment, remaining a source of microplastic fibres with a potential of entering the marine food web and returning to our plates.
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Stolte, A., Lamp, J., Dederer, G., Schneider, F., Kalinowska, M., Migdal, S., … Frössberg, A. (2020). Derelict Fishing Gear – Removing a Source of Microplastics from the Marine Environment. In Springer Water (pp. 72–81). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45909-3_14
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