Detection of nonylphenol and persistent organic pollutants in fish from the North Pacific Central Gyre

Gassel, Margy; Harwani, Suhash; Park, June-Soo; Jahn, Andrew E.

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.05.014

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“…PBDE, BPA, phthalates, nonylphenol, etc. ; Meeker et al 2009;Oehlmann et al 2009;Gassel et al 2013), and even the ingestion of uncontaminated microplastic particles can induce stress responses in fish (Rochman et al 2013b). …”

Section: Plastic Degradation and The Microplastic Boommentioning

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A Brief History of Marine Litter Research

Ryan

2015

Marine Anthropogenic Litter

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This chapter traces the history of marine litter research from anecdotal reports of entanglement and plastic ingestion in the 1960s to the current focus on microplastics and their role in the transfer of persistent organic pollutants to marine food webs. The reports in Science of large numbers of plastic pellets in the North Atlantic in the early 1970s stimulated research interest in plastic litter at sea, with papers reporting plastics on the seafloor and impacting a variety of marine animals. The focus then shifted to high concentrations of plastic litter in the North Pacific, where novel studies reported the dynamics of stranded beach litter, the factors influencing plastic ingestion by seabirds, and trends in fur seal entanglement. By the early 1980s, growing concern about the potential impacts of marine litter resulted in a series of meetings on marine debris. The first two international conferences held in Honolulu by the US National Marine Fisheries Service played a key role in setting the research agenda for the next decade. By the end of the 1980s, most impacts of marine litter were reasonably well understood, and attention shifted to seeking effective solutions to tackle the marine litter problem. Research was largely restricted to monitoring trends in litter to assess the effectiveness of mitigation measures, until the last decade, when concern about microplastics coupled with the discovery of alarming densities of small plastic particles in the North Pacific 'garbage patch' (and other mid-ocean gyres) stimulated the current wave of research.

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Section: Plastic Degradation and The Microplastic Boommentioning

confidence: 99%

A Brief History of Marine Litter Research

Ryan

2015

Marine Anthropogenic Litter

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“…PBDE, BPA, phthalates, nonylphenol, etc. ;Meeker et al 2009;Oehlmann et al 2009;Gassel et al 2013), and even the ingestion of uncontaminated microplastic particles can induce stress responses in fish ).…”

Section: Plastic Degradation and The Microplastic Boommentioning

confidence: 99%

Marine Anthropogenic Litter

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“…Contaminants from plastic waste leach into the surrounding water, and the plastics themselves can be ingested by marine organisms (Derraik, 2002;Andrady, 2011;Gassel et al, 2013;Goldstein and Goodwin, 2013;Koelmans et al, 2014). The North Pacific Central Gyre is a site of considerable plastic contamination.…”

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confidence: 99%