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Availability: The data can be made available upon request, please use contact information. Description The project started in 1999, the survey protocol was tested and agreed in 2000, and the first field surveys started in early 2001. The pilot project has been carried out in two phases, 2000–2003 and 2004–2006. The experience and results from the first phase were reported to the OSPAR Biodiversity Committee (BDC) in 2003 in a preliminary assessment report. more Referring to, inter alia, the conclusions from a first statistical test analysis of the survey data available at that point, in which the need for longer time series of surveys to make statistically significant trend analyses was emphasised, the BDC endorsed a prolongation of the pilot project until the end of 2006. An international Steering Group8, including the national project coordinators, has coordinated the implementation of the pilot project. The Steering Group has included representatives of Belgium, Denmark (mainland and the Faroe Islands), France, Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, as well as observer organisations KIMO (Local Authorities International Environmental Organization), and Seas at Risk (represented by Marine Conservation Society and Stichting De Noordzee). The national project coordination and beach surveys were funded by a combination of national governments, NGOs and volunteers. In Belgium, the project was represented by MUMM-BMM. Results of the Belgian region were integrated in the database. Scope Themes: Environmental quality/pollution Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Litter, Quality, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), Belgium, Koksijde, Belgium, Oostende Geographical coverage ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions] Belgium, Koksijde [Marine Regions] Belgium, Oostende [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage 2001 - 2006 Contributors Related datasets (Partly) included in: AS-MADE: Assessment of Marine Debris on the Belgian Continental Shelf: occurrence and effects, more Project AS-MADE: Assessment of Marine Debris on the Belgian Continental Shelf: occurence and effects. - AS-MADE, more Publication Based on this dataset Claessens, M. et al. (2013). Assessment of marine debris on the Belgian continental shelf: occurrence and effects "AS-MADE": Final Report. SD/NS/12. Belgian Science Policy Office: Brussels. 79 pp., more Braarup Cuykens, A. et al. (2011). Sea, beach and birds: plastics everywhere, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 25 February 2011: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 48: pp. 15, more Braarup Cuykens, A. et al. (2011). Sea, beach and birds: plastics everywhere. Coordination Centre for Integrated Coastal Zone Management/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)/INBO/Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology: Oostende. 1 poster pp., more URLs Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Monitoring: field survey Metadatarecord created: 2012-03-26 Information last updated: 2016-03-31 | ||||
