2018 - 2019 Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) CLiP Vanuatu Marine Litter Abundance and Composition

This dataset contains 3 csv files. One file contains data on marine litter abundance and composition expressed in number of items per category. One file contains location names and GPS coordinates in decimal degrees. One file contains metadata collected during the clean-ups. A READ-ME text file contains description of columns content for the three csv files. Marine litter items were collected during beach clean-ups in the Efate Island (Vanuatu) between November 2018 and February 2019. Category list was obtain merging OSPAR and Tangaroa Blue protocols with the addition of region-specific items. The dataset includes metadata collected during the clean-ups.