Dynamics in microplastic ingestion during the past six decades in herbivorous fish on the Mediterranean Israeli coast
van der Hal, N.; Yeruham, E.; Angel, D. L. (2018). Dynamics in microplastic ingestion during the past six decades in herbivorous fish on the Mediterranean Israeli coast, in: Cocca, M. et al.Proceedings of the International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea. Springer Water, : pp. 159-165. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71279-6_21
In: Cocca, M. et al. (2018). Proceedings of the International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea. Springer Water. Springer International Publishing: Cham. ISBN 978-3-319-71278-9. 250 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71279-6
Examination of the digestive tracts of two species of siganids (rabbitfish), collected in 2016 in the Mediterranean coastal waters of Israel, for the presence of microplastics (MP) revealed that 92% of the 88 fish examined had consumed between 1 and >500 MP per fish. A comparison of the gut contents of fish that had been collected from the 1960s to the present time showed that there was a temporal increase in the proportion of fish with MP, from ~10% in 1960–1970; ~80% in the 1990s; 92% in 2016. There was also a temporal change in the proportion of MP types ingested by these fish. Siganids may be valuable bioindicators of MP pollution in the sea.
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