Floating plastics pervade Pacific fish populations, larval fish are eating our trash

Jennifer Lynch, SEVENSEAS Media Plastics & Pollution

Floating plastics pervade Pacific fish populations, larval fish are eating our trash
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The research, conducted in partnership with Hawaiʻi Pacific University’s Center for Marine Debris Research (CMDR), centered on waters off the Kona coastline of Hawaiʻi Island. The area is found to accumulate microplastic pollution at a rate higher than the North Pacific Garbage Patch itself, and the larval fish living in this nursery habitat are eating the trash that surrounds them.

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