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RESUMEN.
Palabras clave:
Anthropogenic litter in one of the main marine recreational shing grounds on the Argentine
coast: a socio-ecological approach to its management
ABSTRACT.
Residuos antropogénicos en uno de los principales pesqueros
recreacionales marinos de la costa argentina: una aproximación
socio-ecológica para su manejo
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Juan Pablo Seco Pon Maximiliano M. Hernandez
Francisco Zumpano MaríaCandelaria Biagiotti Barchiesi
Germán O. García Ariadna Gorostegui Valenti
Marco Favero
Marine and
Fishery Sciences
MAFIS
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Odontesthes argentinensis
O. platensisO.
smittiCynoscion
guatucupaMicro-
pogonias furnieri
Menticirrhus americanus
Callorhinchus callorhynchus
reel
Artemesia longinaris
Engraulis anchoita
Odontesthes
Key words:
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Área de estudio
Diseño del estudio
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Caracterización de residuos y número de usua-
rios previo a una intervención territorial
Figure 1. Sampling area highlighting the sonication used (sectors and faces) of the Northern Breakwater of the Port of Mar del
Plata, General Pueyrredon district, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina between May and September 2023. Satellite image
taken from Google EarthTM.
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Intervención territorial
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Percepciones y actitudes de los pescadores
Figure 2. Baskets and signage installed on the North Breakwater and designed specically for territorial intervention.
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Análisis estadístico
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Caracterización de residuos previo a la instala-
ción de cestos
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Table 1. Abundance (n, number of items), percentage numerical importance (% of total litter) and observed frequency of occur-
rence (FO, % of total transects) of marine-coastal litter categories recorded in the North Breakwater and on both faces
of it separately prior to the installation of baskets specically designed for waste derived from recreational shing (n =
216 samples).
Figure 3. Importance (numerical %) of plastic litter according to its color observed in the North Breakwater (both faces combined).
2,9
53,1
1,7
0,6
9,6
5,2
1,9
8,6
16,3
Amarillo
Blanco/ ransparentet
Celeste/ zula
Gris/ lateadop
Naranja/ arrónm
Negro
Rojo/ osar
Verde
Multicolor
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Usuarios en la Escollera Norte
Caracterización de residuos en los cestos instalados
A. longinaris
Pleoticus muelleri
E. anchoita
Table 2. Abundance (n, number of items), numerical importance (% of total litter) and observed frequency of occurrence (FO, % of
total transects) of marine-coastal litter recorded in the North Breakwater and on both sides of it, broken down according
to possible sources.
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Table 3. Abundance (n, number of items), numerical importance (% of total litter) and observed frequency of occurrence (FO, %
of total transects) of litter derived from shing activities recorded in the North Breakwater and on both sides of it, during
the sampling period prior to the installation of baskets for litter derived from recreational shing.
Figure 4. Percentage numerical importance of dierent categories of litter identied as belonging to the source of shing-related
litter found in the baskets installed at the Mar del Plata North Breakwater.
47,8
18,2
2,9
22,5
1,9
1,9 4,7
Bolsas plásticas para carnada
Bolas de monofilamento enredado
Monofilamento
Componentes de aparejos de pesca
Bobinas de nylonmonofilamento
Potes o bandejas para carnada
Trapos
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Percepciones y actitudes de los pescadores
recreacionales
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Table 4. Socio-demographic prole of recreational shermen (n
= 89) who participated in the survey at the Mar del Pla-
ta North Breakwater. Ns/nc = do not know/no answer.
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Contribución de autores
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Sula leucogaster
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Table A1. Paired comparisons in the abundance (number of items) of marine-coastal litter (total and plastic fraction) quantied
in the basal, middle and distal sectors of the faces of the North Breakwater of the Port of Mar del Plata prior to the in-
stallation of bins specically designed for shing-derived litter. *Statistically signicant values.
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likelihood-ratio test
Table A2. Type III ANOVA results ( for the
response variable abundance (number of items) of plastic litter. The Transect and Week random eects were included to
control for pseudoreplication. df: degrees of freedom. *Statistically signicant values.
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Table A3. Estimated Marginal Means (EMMs) of plastic debris abundance. Estimated average values of the GLMM (Negative
Binomial distribution) for each level of the source factor (i.e. shing, recreational). The EMMs are adjusted for the xed
eects of the other factors and for the random eects of Transect and Week. Values (ratio) are presented on the count scale.
SE: standard error, df: degrees of freedom. *Statistically signicant values.
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Figure A1. Perception of installed litter receptacles (baskets) on a scale of 1 (very negative) to 10 (very positive). The percentages
on the right indicate positive ratings, and those on the left indicate negative ratings for each attribute.
87%
87%
87%
83%
48%
13%
13%
13%
17%
52%
Capacidad
Ubicación
Funcionamiento
Gráfica/señalética
Promoción/difusión
100 50 050 100
Respuesta 12345678910
Porcentaje (%)
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Figure A2. Relative percentage of responses corresponding to respondents’ agreement regarding the imposition of nes (A) and
the payment of fees/taxes to improve litter collection (B).
“Creo que sería apropiado que una Institución o entidad oficial imponga multas a quienes
arrojen basura en la costa mientras realizan actividades de pesca recreacional”
“Estoy dispuesta/a a agregar 1% de mis ingresos a los impuestos que pago, si con ello se
garantiza la recolección de los residuos generados por la pesca”
Totalmente en desacuerdo
En desacuerdo
Neutral
De acuerdo
Totalmente de acuerdo
0510 15 20 25 30 35
Frecuencia (%)
Totalmente en desacuerdo
En desacuerdo
Neutral
De acuerdo
Totalmente de acuerdo
A
B
