Frequency of Microplastics in Mesopelagic Fishes from the Northwest Atlantic

Microplastics are a ubiquitous pollutant in our seas today and are known to have detrimental effects on a variety of organisms. Over the past decade numerous studies have documented microplastic ingestion by marine species with more recent investigations focussing on the secondary impacts of micropl...

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Main Authors: Alina M. Wieczorek, Liam Morrison, Peter L. Croot, A. Louise Allcock, Eoin MacLoughlin, Olivier Savard, Hannah Brownlow, Thomas K. Doyle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2018.00039/full