Baby Fish Feast on Microplastics, and Then Get Eaten
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NOAA
the National Academy of Sciences
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Nast
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Condé Nast
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Jamison Gove
Jonathan Whitney
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Jennifer Brandon
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the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Hawaii
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Summary
“That's really interesting,” Gove says, “because what I think it implies is that either different fish potentially have larger eyes or some other adaptation that they can distinguish between plastics and their prey better, or their food source is different.”Either way, microplastics have entered Hawaii’s oceanic food chain in a big way. And keep in mind that you and I are at the end of that food chain.“I think this paper does a great job of illustrating that plastic and plankton and larval fish interact with the ocean currents the same way,” says oceanographer Jennifer Brandon, who studies microplastics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and who wasn’t involved in this new work.
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