The last CleanAtlantic Workshop was held on the 9th December in Portugal, in the Conference Centre of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon. The Workshop was focused on Marine Litter Modelling, and particularly on the CleanAtlantic contribution to the numerical modelling of marine litter in the Atlantic Area. Project partners from IST, INTECMAR and USC contributed to…
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This study, authored by Jesus Gago et al. from IEO Vigo and IEO Malaga, evaluates the ingestion of plastic marine debris (macro and micro plastics) by a piscivorous predator, Alepisaurus ferox Lowe (1833). A total of 27 specimens were captured in 2015 and 2016 in the North Atlantic (around 34º–36º N and 10º–16º W) and their stomachs were dissected…
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The partners of the CleanAtlantic project participated on the 4th December on a Technical workshop focussed on the reviewing the advances in the fight of marine litter in the Atlantic regions. The workshop was organised by the Marine Institute in its facilities in Galway (Ireland) with the main objective of presenting the CleanAtlantic achievements to date…
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On the 2nd and 3th December, the Marine Institute (Galway, Ireland) hosted the 5th coordination meeting gathering all CleanAtlantic partners. During the 2-days meeting, partners shared the interesting results achieved in the last period regarding mapping, monitoring, modelling and removal of marine litter, its socioeconomic impact, and the development of raising awareness activities in the…
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CleanAtlantic and the Cambados Fishing Guild organize a campaign to remove marine litter from the Ría de Arousa The scallop trail fleet of the Cambados Fishing Guild began this Monday, December the 2nd, a three-days campaign to remove marine litter from the Ría de Arousa seabed. This action, organized by CETMAR, is part of the…
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CleanAtlantic, de la mano de CETMAR, y la Cofradía de Cambados organizan una campaña de retirada de basura marina de la ría de Arousa La flota de rastro de vieira de la Cofradía de Cambados inició este lunes día 2 de diciembre, tres días de campaña de retirada de basura marina en la ría de…
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