IMARES Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies, Wageningen-UR, PO Box 167, 1790AD Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands.
Environ Pollut. 2011 Oct;159(10):2609-15. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.06.008. Epub 2011 Jul 6.
The abundance of plastics in stomachs of northern fulmars from the North Sea is used in the OSPAR Ecological Quality Objective (EcoQO) for marine litter. The preliminary EcoQO defines acceptable ecological quality as the situation where no more than 10% of fulmars exceed a critical level of 0.1 g of plastic in the stomach. During 2003-2007, 95% of 1295 fulmars sampled in the North Sea had plastic in the stomach (on average 35 pieces weighing 0.31 g) and the critical level of 0.1 g of plastic was exceeded by 58% of birds, with regional variations ranging from 48 to 78%. Long term data for the Netherlands since the 1980s show a decrease of industrial, but an increase of user plastics, with shipping and fisheries as the main sources. The EcoQO is now also used as an indicator for Good Environmental Status in the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
北海北方海鹦胃中塑料的丰富程度被用于 OSARP 海洋垃圾生态质量目标 (EcoQO)。初步的 EcoQO 将可接受的生态质量定义为胃中塑料含量不超过 0.1 克的海鹦不超过 10%的情况。在 2003-2007 年期间，在北海采集的 1295 只北方海鹦中有 95%的胃中有塑料（平均 35 块，重量为 0.31 克），有 58%的鸟类超过了 0.1 克的塑料临界水平，区域差异从 48%到 78%不等。自 20 世纪 80 年代以来，荷兰的长期数据显示工业塑料减少，但消费塑料增加，航运和渔业是主要来源。EcoQO 现在也被用作欧洲海洋战略框架指令中良好环境状况的指标。
