“…Coherent to this study, previous studies employing fish from Mugilidae family also reported the dominance of fiber particles in the GIT (Naidoo et al, 2016;Güven et al, 2017;Jabeen et al, 2017;Cheung et al, 2018;Halstead et al, 2018;Hastuti et al, 2019;McGregor & Strydom, 2020;Zhang et al, 2021b;Guilhermino et al, 2021;Saha et al, 2021;Nematollahi et al, 2021;Wootton et al, 2021;Kılıç & Yücel, 2022) The size of MPs is the main factor determining the ingestion potential of a particle. In fact, as the size of a MPs decreases, its bioavailability to the marine biota increases (Shim et al, 2018).…”