Guidelines and forms for gathering marine litter data: beach and seafloor trawlings. Updated version 11/01/2021.

Abstract

As part of the 3rd phase of EMODnet Chemistry, the scope of attention has been expanded with gathering data and developing access to data and data products for marine litter. This document gives background information about EMODnet strategy for marine litter data collection, its synergy with existing information systems and achievements of EMODnet Chemistry so far. Thereafter it gives detailed information on how to deal with marine litter data for the scope of the EMODnet Chemistry 3 project and, in particular, the formats to be used for gathering and describing marine litter data sets by EMODnet Chemistry participants on a European scale.