Congratulations, but instead googling the minimum to confirm your side, maybe Google "majority vs plurality" and get back to me.
Majority has multiple definitions, a simple, inexact definition in common English, and a more exact definition in poli-sci, math, and engineering.
Of course, all of this is an irrelevant aside since as op clarified, fishing equipment constitutes over 50% of the trash, making it the majority by any definition.
Wikipedia specifically separates the two understandings, with majority (and more specifically simple majority) meaning a subset with more than half of the sets elements. The subset of apples is not more than half of the set. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/majority
That definition doesn't work though because I could just as easily say from your example that a majority of fruits are not apples and I would be just as correct because the sum of oranges and bananas is the greater number compared to apples.
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u/Its_Nitsua Aug 12 '21 edited Aug 12 '21
If you have 6 apples 3 bananas and 4 oranges, you have a majority of apples.
Majority literally means ‘the greater number’.
Edit: yes there are multiple definitions, but with the magic of context we can clearly see OP was using the one I’m referencing.