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Plastic pollution is widely recognised as a pervasive anthropogenic pressure on coastal environments. Yet, beach-dune systems and dune vegetation remain considerably less studied than marine waters, beach sediments and aquatic biota. This paper presents a critical narrative review, supported by a spatial overview of the principal beach-dune systems along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast based on recent dune inventory, mapping and litter-assessment data, with particular emphasis on microplastics, their occurrence, tra...

Long-term changes in fishery landings are important indicators of stock status and ecosystem condition, particularly in semi-enclosed and data-limited marine systems such as the Black Sea. These trends are also relevant to the broader international debate on sustainable fisheries management, as they can provide early warning of persistent declines where full analytical stock assessments are limited. This study assesses temporal trends in the annual landings of three Mugilidae species (Mugil cephalus, Chelon auratu...