Detached aquaculture buoys in the SE Pacific: Potential dispersal vehicles for associated organisms

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Microplastic pollution in the surface waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes. (2013, background): “Plastic marine pollution has the potential to transport non-native species beyond their historical geographic range (Astudillo et al., 2009; Barnes and Fraser, 2003; Bravo et al., 2011; Gregory, 2009; Webb et al., 2009).”
Plastic pollution in the marine environment (2020, background): “(2014), a diverse group of plastic rafting organisms was recorded from the western and eastern pacific oceanic regions during the 2009–2012 period, while 134 species belonging to 14 phyla were attached to the substrate of plastic buoys originated from aquaculture operations along the south-eastern P”
Marine litter as habitat and dispersal vector (2015, background): “In contrast to these numbers, Astudillo et al. (2009) and Goldstein et al. (2014) found more mobile than sessile taxa on floating litter, indicating that the inclusion of studies from beached litter is likely leading to an underestimation of mobile taxa.”