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Due to the basin shape and the high demographic pressure of the surrounding countries, the Adriatic Sea can be considered at risk for the amount of marine litter that enters the marine…
The National Institute of Chemistry in collaboration with other DeFishGear project partners (defishgear.net) organized an international conference on Microplastics – MICRO 2015 which took place in Piran, Slovenia on May 5-6, 2015.…
Since October 2014, DeFishGear project partner, i.e. HCMR (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research) records and identifies marine litter collected by local fishermen on Corfu Island. Under the umbrella of “Fishing for Litter”…
Marine litter is recognized as a persistent and growing problem with environmental, economic, safety, health and cultural implications that expand beyond borders. Together with the emerging microplastics pollution (threat to marine environment…
One year after taking up the challenge to address the need (read more here) for accurate, coherent and comparable scientific data on marine litter in the Adriatic region to support effective decision…
On December 11, 2014, in Neum, the program of marine litter monitoring was implemented in accordance with the requirements of the Barcelona Convention, which imply the categorization of litter by type and…
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