Out of sight, hidden into the deep: Marine litter in the Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon (southwestern Atlantic) revealed by ROV survey (IMAGE)

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Out of sight, hidden into the deep: Marine litter in the Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon (southwestern Atlantic) revealed by ROV survey

Caption

Faunal interactions with anthropogenic litter in the Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon (MPSC). (A) Degraded black plastic sheet, partially buried, with arthropods including Tetrachaelasma southwardi and an octocoral, 2,108 m. (B) Plastic bag with the asteroid Smilasterias sp., 3,243 m. (C) Fishing rope with tubicolous polychaetes, 2,054 m. (D) Nylon filament (probably fishing line) with Anthozoa polyp indet., 1,616 m. (E) White plastic container, partially buried, with the brittle star Ophioplinthus sp. and probable ascidian, 1,764 m. All images courtesy of Schmidt Ocean Institute/ ROV SuBastian (CC BY 4.0), expedition FKt250712.

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Teso et al., 2026, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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