The Fish We Eat are Eating Plastic

[lennypartiv]

---In a newly published study that we conducted with ecologist Elliott Hazen, we examined how marine fish – including species consumed by humans – are ingesting synthetic particles of all sizes.---

The Fish We Eat are Eating Plastic

Trillions ofbarely visible pieces of plasticare floatin...

maritime-executive.com

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Don't eat the fish intestines.......

 

[lennypartiv]

---There Is Plastic In Your Fish---

There Is Plastic In Your Fish

There are more than 51 trillion microplastic particles in the sea, more than 500 times the number of stars in the Milky Way. We are starting to see them show up in our seafood.

www.forbes.com

 

[Oddball]

Well of course....How do you think that I catch them?

 

[gulfman]

I went to a seafood restaurant and ordered a nice piece of Charter.The waitress looked at me like I was nuts."We don't have Charter"My buddies all go charter fishing and I thought I'd try some.

 

[JLW]

Microplastics are every where. By 2050 in some estimates there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.

"Starting with an estimate that 150 million tonnes of plastic are already polluting the world's oceans, and that "leakage" adds at least 9.1 million tonnes more each year — a figure that is said to be growing by five per cent annually — the MacArthur report calculates there will be 850-950 million tonnes of ocean plastic by 2050, versus total fish stocks of 812-899 million tonnes."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ocean-plastic-liberals-fact-check-1.5212632