Marine Pollution by Ropes and Strings from Fishing and Shipping Industries
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- OKANO Tamon
- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University
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- MORITA Akira
- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University
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- Other Title
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- 漁業や海運用のロープによる海浜の漂着ごみ汚染
- ギョギョウ ヤ カイウンヨウ ノ ロープ ニ ヨル カイヒン ノ ヒョウチャクゴミ オセン
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Ropes are recognized as an insidious ocean pollutant. Using a two-stage monitoring method, we estimated the proportion of ropes in marine debris: the weight of whole debris items including short ropes ( ≧6mm diameter, <5m length) that accumulated on a 5-m length of beach was measured 198 times; and the weight of polyolefin long ropes ( ≧0.3m length) that washed up on a 500-m length of beach was investigated monthly for 3 years. The weight of polyolefin ropes was estimated based on diameter and length due to the difficulty in disentangling ropes. On the beaches of Tottori Prefecture, the weights of accumulated short ropes, resin pellets and non-foamed plastic fragments were 9.92, 0.13, and 6.75 kg/hm, respectively; the weights of washed-up long ( ≧0.3m) and medium sized (0.3-5m) ropes were 35.1 and 15.1kg/(hm・Y), respectively. The half-lives of these items on beaches are not thought to be significantly different, suggesting that ropes are the heaviest debris in the Sea of Japan. Polyolefin ropes degrade to form fine fiber, which has a far larger surface area than polyolefin resin pellets. Therefore, ropes are considered to be the worst type of marine litter.
Journal
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- ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 26 (2), 150-157, 2013
SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, JAPAN
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282679400834304
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- NII Article ID
- 10031160057
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- NII Book ID
- AN10165252
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- ISSN
- 18845029
- 09150048
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- NDL BIB ID
- 024611638
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- JaLC
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