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Fulmar Litter Monitoring in the Netherlands - update 2022
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This report provides an updated 2022 assessment of plastic litter ingested by northern fulmars — seabirds used as indicators of marine plastic pollution — found beached in the Netherlands. While the long-term trend shows gradual improvement, current levels remain well above the target set for a healthy North Sea.
A_4_3_2 V30 (2020) 7.Over the 5-year period 2018-2022, 25% of the birds had ingested paraffin-like substances, with an average mass of 1.6 gram per bird.CONCLUSION On the longer term, stomach contents of fulmars beached in the Netherlands indicate that the marine litter situation off the Dutch coast is gradually improving, but still far off the Fulmar Threshold Value.At the current rate of the trend, the Fulmar-TV might be reached around the year 2074.Within 10-year evaluation periods the trend is not consistent and showed no significant change over the most recent 2013-2022 decade.Future data must reveal if this reflects a temporary deviation, or a reversal in the longer term trend.
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