Mollusken uit opgedoken visnetten. Duik de Noordzee Schoon juni 2018

Annually a dive team recovers fishing nets and other materials from ship wrecks in the North Sea – coordinated by ‘Stichting Duik de Noordzee Schoon’ (Foundation DDNZS, or Dive to Clean the North Sea). Different from previous editions, this time predominantly material from the British part of the North Sea was collected and only one locality in Dutch waters was sampled. Data about the mollusc fauna of the wrecks was gathered via inspection of retrieved fishing nets and via seabed samples taken by the divers. Most samples were small, but relatively rich in species (in total at least 106). Probably as a result of the different sampling areas, quite a few species were recorded that had not been seen during earlier DDNZS expeditions. Modiolula phaseolina (Philippi, 1844) was recorded for the first time from several localities in the British part of the southern North Sea.