Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 113, Issue 1-2, Pages 392-399Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.10.031
Keywords
Slovenian sea; Adriatic Sea; Marine litter; Sea surface; Microplastics; Markov chain model
Funding
- DeFishGear (Derelict Fishing Gear Management System in the Adriatic Region) [1degrees str/00010]
- European Union, Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)
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Plastics are the most common material of marine litter and have become a global pollution concern. They are persistent in the environment where they gradually degrade into increasingly smaller particles-microplastics (MP). Our study presents results of sea-surface monitoring for MP in the Slovenian part of the Trieste Bay in the Northern Adriatic Sea. In 17 trawls conducted over a 20-month period we found a high average concentration of 406 x 10(3) MP particles/km(2). Over 80% of the particles were identified as polyethylene. The significant variability of MP concentrations obtained on different sampling dates is explained by use of surface current maps and a recently developed Markov chain marine litter distribution model for the Adriatic Sea. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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