Abundance and characteristics of microplastics in commercial marine fish from Malaysia

Samaneh Karbalaei, Abolfazl Golieskardi, Hazilawati Binti Hamzah, Samiaa Abdulwahid, Parichehr Hanachi, Tony R. Walker, Ali Karami

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Plastic debris is widespread and ubiquitous in the marine environment and ingestion of plastic debris by marine organisms is well-documented. Viscera and gills of 110 individual marine fish from 11 commercial fish species collected from the marine fish market were examined for presence of plastic debris. Isolated particles were characterized by Raman spectroscopy, and elemental analysis was assessed using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). Nine (of 11) species contained plastic debris. Out of 56 isolated particles, 76.8% were plastic polymers, 5.4% were pigments, and 17.8% were unidentified. Extracted plastic particle sizes ranged from 200 to 34,900 μm (mean = 2600 μm ±7.0 SD). Hazardous material was undetected using inorganic elemental analysis of extracted plastic debris and pigment particles. The highest number of ingested microplastics was measured in Eleutheronema tridactylum and Clarias gariepinus, suggesting their potential as indicator species to monitor and study trends of ingested marine litter.

Idioma originalEnglish
Páginas (desde-hasta)5-15
Número de páginas11
PublicaciónMarine Pollution Bulletin
Volumen148
DOI
EstadoPublished - nov. 2019

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Funding Information:
The study presented in the manuscript was partially funded by the Fundamental Research Grant (No: 04-01-14-1446FR ), Ministry of Higher Education ( MOHE ), Malaysian Government.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Oceanography
  • Aquatic Science
  • Pollution

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