Guernsey beach cleans and marine litter
Marine debris washes up on the Guernsey shore regularly. Much of it is from ships including fishing boats. Storms bring up broken crab and lobster pots. Beach cleaners often find an odd shoe, cigarette lighters, plastic polymer fishing rope, twine, and line, pieces of polystyrene and insulation foam, plastic bags and plastic bottles, and thousands of pieces of hard plastic including disposable plastic cutlery, plastic bottle tops and plastic toys.
Polyethylene twine is the most common macro plastic litter item washing up on Petit Port on Guernsey's south coast
Many hundreds of short lengths of polyethylene twine can wash up on a daily basis at Petit Port on Guernsey's south coast when there is a southerly or a south-westerly wind.
The plastic threads from the cut ends of the polyethylene twine are frequently entangled in eel grass roots and leaves. Eel grass, Zostera marina, grows extensively in patches below extreme low water at Petit Port.
It is possible that the entanglement of eel grass roots in the cut threads of polyethylene twine contributes to the removal of eel grass from the sea bed.
File No. 160221 2076
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