Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta ): A target species for monitoring litter ingested by marine organisms in the Mediterranean Sea

Tools and constraints in monitoring interactions between marine litter and megafauna: Insights from case studies around the world

“…As a first step, a state of art approach involving the compiling of published and grey literature as well as expert knowledge is fundamental to support the feasibility and the definition of new indicators and/or criteria. While an indicator of debris ingestion is already being considered by some environmental policies (Matiddi et al, 2017;Van Franeker et al, 2011;Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council; Commission Decision (EU) 2010/477/EU; EIHA 16/05/13 (0513); UN Environment/MAP SPA/RAC, 2018), no indicator related to entanglement has been defined to date for long-term monitoring programs, although recently proposed by EU (Commission Decision (EU) 2017/848). The European project INDICIT and a national French IFREMER-MNHN team evaluated the feasibility of an indicator "Entanglement with debris by marine biota" in EU, OSPAR, HELCOM and Barcelona conventions areas.…”

Fulmar Litter EcoQO monitoring in the Netherlands: update 2018

“…Huerta Lwanga et al 2016;Ng et al 2018 (OSPAR 2008(OSPAR , 2009(OSPAR , 2010a(OSPAR , 2010b(OSPAR , 2015a . These awards were used also to promote fulmar work in other areas of the world such as Ireland (Acampora et al 2016), the Faroe Islands (Van Franeker 2012), Iceland , Svalbard (Trevail et al 2015), Atlantic Canada (Bond et al 2014), the Canadian Arctic (Mallory et al 2006;Mallory 2008;Provencher et al 2009;Poon et al 2017;Avery-Gomm et al 2018) and the Pacific (Nevins et al 2011;Avery-Gomm et al 2012;Donnelly et al 2014;Terepocki et al 2017) and to explore the potential use of other marine species for ingestion monitoring as intended in the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive Foekema et al 2013;Matiddi et al 2017; Addition to the basic raw data to be added to databases of RWS CIV (Centrale Informatievoorziening, Lelystad) or via CIV to third parties like OSPAR.…”

Fulmar Litter EcoQO monitoring in the Netherlands : Update 2017

“…Huerta Lwanga et al 2016;Ng et al 2018 (OSPAR 2008(OSPAR , 2009(OSPAR , 2010a(OSPAR , 2010b(OSPAR , 2015a . These awards were used also to promote fulmar work in other areas of the world such as Ireland (Acampora et al 2016), the Faroe Islands (Van Franeker 2012), Iceland , Svalbard (Trevail et al 2015), Atlantic Canada (Bond et al 2014), the Canadian Arctic (Mallory et al 2006;Mallory 2008;Provencher et al 2009;Poon et al 2017;Avery-Gomm et al 2018) and the Pacific (Nevins et al 2011;Avery-Gomm et al 2012;Donnelly et al 2014;Terepocki et al 2017) and to explore the potential use of other marine species for ingestion monitoring as intended in the European Marine Strategy Directive Foekema et al 2013;Matiddi et al 2017;van Franeker et al 2018). The most recent international overview of the monitoring of plastics in stomach contents of fulmars in the North Sea area includes data up to 2014 (OSPAR 2017).…”