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SUBMITTER: Richardson K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5274615 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Richardson Kelsey K Haynes David D Talouli Anthony A Donoghue Michael M
Ambio 20160827 2
Fisheries observer data recorded between 2003 and 2015 on-board purse seine and longline vessels operating in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean reported more than 10 000 pollution incidents within the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of 25 Pacific countries and territories, and in international waters. A majority of the reported purse seine pollution incidents related to dumping of plastics waste. Other common pollution incidents related to oil spillages and to abandoned, lost or dumped fishi ...[more]