plastic materials collected
Bags-grocery/retail (plastic)
3
Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic)
6
Caps & Lids (plastic)
5
Cigarette Lighters
12
Fishing: Line
1
Food Wrappers (plastic)
2
Mesh Bags: Fruit/vegetable/shellfish
1
Plastic Fragments
15
glass materials collected
Glass & Ceramic Fragments
2
Beverage Bottles (glass)
3
rubber materials collected
Tires/tyres
2
wood materials collected
Wood Fragments
1
cloth materials collected
Towels/rags
6
Cloth Fragments
2
paper materials collected
Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons
4
mixed materials collected
Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement
1
Clothing
2
Toys
1
Entangled Animals
Other Fish
Species or Common Name
Peppered Moray Eel
Number Entangled
1
Status
released unharmed
Type of Debris
Carpet fragment
Comments
1 adult Peppered Moray and 4 juveniles had made their home in a carpet washed into the bay from a restaurant. The adult was entangled but was released unharmed.
Additional Information
Was there any event that could have contributed to the documented debris?
A storm the week before washed Debris from beach front restaurants into Masbat bay.
What was the most unusual item found?
board shorts, tennis ball, light bulbs.
What were the most problematic debris items in your location?
Carpets
cigarette butts
tyres
