📢New paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#SeaTurtle 🌊🐢mortality in the #CanaryCurrent, a major #bycatch hotspot:
-Longliners: 6800 loggerheads, 740 olive ridleys, 3529 leatherbacks▶️mortality unknown
-Trawlers: 151 greens, 95 loggerheads, 42 olive ridleys.
-Purse seiners: Negligible impact

The 2nd paper of our project:
#Seabird biomonitoring indicates similar #plastic pollution throughout the #CanaryCurrent
led by MSc student @mariasmonteliu.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
@plasticwars.bsky.social
@plasticpollutes.bsky.social @bffp.bsky.social

#PlasThreat project
Researchers from MNCN @csic.es, IQOG @csic.es, UNED & GOHNIC collaborate to assess the impact of #marine #plasticpollution on a #seabird, Cory's #shearwater, exploiting the #CanaryCurrent. This marine region is strategically important for #Spain & #Europe.