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Cais dos Pescadores

10 September, 2021

Team Leader
Carolina Gonçalves & Teresa Vale
Number of Participants
6
Total Debris Collected
200 kgs (estimated)

38.697195483714, -9.4183892011642

Survey Information

Location Name
Cais dos Pescadores
Organization/Dive Centre
Associação Juvenil Claro/ Clube Naval de Cascais
City
Cascais
Country
Portugal
Date
10 September, 2021
Survey Duration
50 Minutes
GPS Coordinates
Latitude: 38.697195483714
Longitude: -9.4183892011642
Weather Conditions
Survey Depth Range
1–5 meters
Area Surveyed
500 m2
Dominant Substrate
silt
Ecosystem
other
Wave Conditions
Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
plastic materials collected
Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) 2
metal materials collected
Beverage Cans (aluminium) 2
rubber materials collected
Tires/tyres 4
wood materials collected
Wood Fragments 2
other materials collected
Shopping Carts 4
Scooter 2
Cargo Cart 1
Fishing: traps & pots (plastic) 2
Entangled Animals
Other Animals
Species or Common Name Starfish; sea urchins; anemones
Number Entangled 20
Status released unharmed
Type of Debris Tires and traps

People (mostly teenagers) that go to the fisherman's pier at night to drink and hangout and start throwing on purpose or accidentally scooters and shopping carts with which they were playing with (there is an Auchan supermarket near that location).

Shopping carts

Shopping carts

Tires

Fishing traps


We assume the shopping carts and the scooters came from people (specially teens) that go drink and hangout at night at the pier because we also found a lot of beer bottles (broken and not broken) on the pier itself and because of some of the fisherman's own reports...

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