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European consumers pay the price for fish when hard brexit occurs - If the United Kingdom (UK) would completely close its marine areas, the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium would be affected the most. For the... -
Ingestion of plastic by Polar Cod - The Arctic Ocean is often considered an undisturbed and pristine environment. Unfortunately, the Arctic isn’t an enclosed system but influenced... -
Increase in extremes calls for intensive river monitoring - Climate change and changes in land use mean that the past can tell us very little about future extreme discharges of rivers. A clever combined... -
Harbour porpoises and plastics - About 15% of harbour porpoises found dead on beaches in the Netherlands has ingested plastic in the stomach. This is shown in a recent publication by... -
Plastic bio-beads beached on Texel - On Saturday morning 6 January 2018 huge numbers of black plastic granules beached on the island of Texel in the Netherlands. This type of granules... -
Stranded sperm whale free of plastic - No plastic was found in the stomach of the sperm whale that stranded near Domburg on the first of December. The animal was probably suffering from an... -
Fishing with trawl nets while maintaining benthic life - Under the direction of Wageningen Marine Research, a group of European researchers has developed a method to restrict the impact of different types of... -
Are sunscreen products harmful to Bonaire's ecosystems? - Dr. Diana Slijkerman of Wageningen Marine Research was on Bonaire last November to study the presence of potentially harmful sunscreens. She took... -
Inauguration Prof. Tinka Murk: towards a healthy. productive and resilient North Sea - How can we support and promote North Sea life in such a way that economic activities such as shipping, sand extraction and fishing go hand in hand... -
A little less plastics in fulmar stomachs - Wageningen Marine Research, commissioned by the Dutch government, has published its annual report on the abundance of plastics in stomachs of northern...