Monitoring of seafloor litter on the Dutch continental shelf : international bottom trawl survey 2024, Dutch beam trawl survey 2023

This report presents the seafloor litter composition, abundance, and spatial distribution based on catches of the regular fish surveys, the IBTS and the Dutch Beam Trawl Survey (BTS). Only the catches on the Dutch Continental Shelf (DCS) are used for data analysis. To assess the status of seafloor litter on the DCS, the Dutch data are supplemented with those from international partners surveying the DCS within the IBTS.