Evidence of Microplastic Ingestion by Fish from the Bahía Blanca Estuary in Argentina, South America

Arias, Andrés Hugo; Ronda, Ana Carolina; Oliva, Ana Laura; Marcovecchio, Jorge Eduardo

doi:10.1007/s00128-019-02604-2

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“…We found relatively low plastic ingestion FO% (10.3%) in demersal fish, but this FO% was higher than found in demersal species from the Ionian Sea (1.1% in Citharus linguatula, Mullus barbatus and Pagellus erithrinus) (Anastasopoulou et al, 2013) and the North Sea (5.4% in Limanda limanda, Rummel et al, 2016;6% in Melanogrammus aeglefinus, Foekema et al, 2013). Other studies in the southwest Atlantic have described microplastic ingestion by demersal fish, although FO is not reported: Arias et al (2019) found 241 microplastic particles in twenty Micropogonias furnieri at an estuary in Argentina; in Uruguay, the presence of synthetic fibers Fig. 3.…”

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Ingestion of plastic debris by commercially important marine fish in southeast-south Brazil

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Rodrigues

Ortega

et al. 2020

Environmental Pollution

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Rising concentrations of plastics in the oceans are leading to increasing negative interactions with marine biota, including ingestion by endangered and/or economically important seafood species such as fish. In this paper, we visually evaluated plastic debris ingestion by 965 specimens of eight commercially exploited fish species from different marine habitats off the southeast-south coast of Brazil. All species ingested plastics, with pelagic animals having higher amounts, frequency of occurrence, diversity and sizes of ingested items than demersal-pelagic and demersal animals. Highest frequency of occurrence (FO%) of plastic ingestion (25.8%) was observed for the pelagic skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis (Scombridae), and lowest (5%) for the demersal bluewing searobin Prionotus punctatus (Triglidae). Microplastics predominated in all species, and fibers/lines and fragments were the main items found, possibly derived from fishing materials. The most abundant plastic colors were transparent, black and blue, and the most common polymers were polyamide and polyurethane. With the available data, no relationship between the size of the individuals and amount of ingested plastics was observed. Considering the negative impacts of plastic ingestion on marine fish, and potentially on human health due to their consumption, understanding ingestion patterns is critical for better evaluating their origin and possible causes, and consequently for helping define prevention strategies for this problem.

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Section: Occurrence and Abundance Of Plastic Ingestion By Marine Fishcontrasting

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Ingestion of plastic debris by commercially important marine fish in southeast-south Brazil

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Rodrigues

Ortega

et al. 2020

Environmental Pollution

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“…. The studies byNeves et al (2015) [42],Bellas et al (2016) [44] andArias et al (2019) [48] also reported greater numbers of fibers compared to other MP types within piscine digestive tracts. The reason for fibers being so common has been attributed to their diverse origin.…”

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“…Fibers constituted the greatest proportion of MPs in fish from the Río de la Plata estuary (96%) [ 47 ] and in the North Pacific Gyre (94%) [ 49 ]. The studies by Neves et al (2015) [ 42 ], Bellas et al (2016) [ 44 ] and Arias et al (2019) [ 48 ] also reported greater numbers of fibers compared to other MP types within piscine digestive tracts. The reason for fibers being so common has been attributed to their diverse origin.…”

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“…Research conducted in Tokyo Bay (Japan) with a population in the bay’s drainage area of 29 million people found that 77% of Japanese anchovies contained MPs in their digestive tracts [ 36 ]. Very few studies have reported higher occurrences, but in the Río de la Plata [ 47 ] and Bahía Blanca [ 48 ] estuaries in Argentina, MPs have been found in 100% of the sampled fish. Notably, the study by Pazos et al (2017) [ 47 ] reported an average number of MPs per fish as 18.5 ± 18.9, whilst more typical numbers were found to be between 2 and 10.…”

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‘The Plastic Nile’: First Evidence of Microplastic Contamination in Fish from the Nile River (Cairo, Egypt)

Khan

Shashoua

Crawford³

et al. 2020

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The presence of microplastics (MPs) in the world’s longest river, the Nile River, has yet to be reported. This small-scale study aimed to provide the first information about MPs in the Nile River by sampling the digestive tracts of two fish species, the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus, n = 29) and catfish (Bagrus bayad, n = 14). Fish were purchased from local sellers in Cairo, and then their gastrointestinal tracts were dissected and examined for MPs. Over 75% of the fish sampled contained MPs in their digestive tract (MP prevalence of 75.9% and 78.6% for Nile tilapia and catfish, respectively). The most abundant MP type was fibers (65%), the next most abundant type was films (26.5%), and the remaining MPs were fragments. Polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polypropylene (PP) were all non-destructively identified by attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. A comparison with similar studies from marine and freshwater environments shows that this high level of MP ingestion is rarely found and that fish sampled from the Nile River in Cairo are potentially among the most in danger of consuming MPs worldwide. Further research needs to be conducted, but, in order to mitigate microplastic pollution in the Nile River, we must act now.

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“…As with invertebrates, many studies published in 2019 relayed information on microplastic concentration in fish tissues and more broadly incidence of microplastic ingestion. For example, studies documented microplastics in fishes from coastal waters of the Red Sea (Al‐Lihaibi et al, 2019), the Canary Islands (Herrera et al, 2019), Bay of Bengal (Hossain et al, 2019), and the Yellow Sea, China, as well as estuarine waters in Argentina (Arias, Ronda, Oliva, & Marcovecchio, 2019), southeastern Brazil (Dantas, Ribeiro, Frischknecht, Machado, & Farias, 2019), and Portugal (Rodrigues, Almeida, et al, 2019; Rodrigues, Antunes, et al, 2019) and deep sea waters, such as those in the South China Sea (Zhu, Wang, et al, 2019).…”

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Effects of pollution on marine organisms

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Morrison

Arthur³

et al. 2020

Water Environment Research

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This review covers selected 2019 articles on the biological effects of pollutants, including human physical disturbances, on marine and estuarine plants, animals, ecosystems, and habitats. The review, based largely on journal articles, covers field, and laboratory measurement activities (bioaccumulation of contaminants, field assessment surveys, toxicity testing, and biomarkers) as well as pollution issues of current interest including endocrine disrupters, emerging contaminants, wastewater discharges, marine debris, dredging, and disposal. Special emphasis is placed on effects of oil spills and marine debris due largely to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and proliferation of data on the assimilation and effects of marine debris microparticulates. Several topical areas reviewed in the past (e.g., mass mortalities ocean acidification) were dropped this year. The focus of this review is on effects, not on pollutant sources, chemistry, fate, or transport. There is considerable overlap across subject areas (e.g., some bioaccumulation data may be appeared in other topical categories such as effects of wastewater discharges, or biomarker studies appearing in oil toxicity literature). Therefore, we strongly urge readers to use keyword searching of the text and references to locate related but distributed information. Although nearly 400 papers are cited, these now represent a fraction of the literature on these subjects. Use this review mainly as a starting point. And please consult the original papers before citing them.

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Evidence of Microplastic Ingestion by Fish from the Bahía Blanca Estuary in Argentina, South America

Cited by 110 publications

References 37 publications

Ingestion of plastic debris by commercially important marine fish in southeast-south Brazil

Ingestion of plastic debris by commercially important marine fish in southeast-south Brazil

‘The Plastic Nile’: First Evidence of Microplastic Contamination in Fish from the Nile River (Cairo, Egypt)

Effects of pollution on marine organisms

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