Assessment of microplastics in freshwater systems: A review

C Li, R Busquets, LC Campos - Science of the Total Environment, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The reliance on plastic for a vast number of consumer products, many of them single-use,
results in their continuous entry into aquatic environments. Plastic waste can fragment into …

Microplastics in fish and fishmeal: an emerging environmental challenge?

CJ Thiele, MD Hudson, AE Russell, M Saluveer… - Scientific reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Microplastics are contaminants of emerging concern; they are ingested by marine biota.
About a quarter of global marine fish landings is used to produce fishmeal for animal and …

Microplastics in different tissues of fish and prawn from the Musa Estuary, Persian Gulf

S Abbasi, N Soltani, B Keshavarzi, F Moore, A Turner… - Chemosphere, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Commercially-important species of fish and a crustacean from four sites in the Musa estuary
and a site in the Persian Gulf have been analysed for the presence and location of …

Quality criteria for the analysis of microplastic in biota samples: a critical review

E Hermsen, SM Mintenig, E Besseling… - … science & technology, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Data on ingestion of microplastics by marine biota are quintessential for monitoring and risk
assessment of microplastics in the environment. Current studies, however, portray a wide …

Sampling, isolating and identifying microplastics ingested by fish and invertebrates

AL Lusher, NA Welden, P Sobral… - Analysis of nanoplastics …, 2020‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Over the past century, there has been an exponential increase in plastic demand and
production [1]. Concurrently, improper disposal, accidental loss and fragmentation of plastic …

Microplastics and mesoplastics in fish from coastal and fresh waters of China

K Jabeen, L Su, J Li, D Yang, C Tong, J Mu… - Environmental pollution, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Plastic pollution is a growing global concern. In the present study, we investigated plastic
pollution in 21 species of sea fish and 6 species of freshwater fish from China. All of the …

Ingestion of microplastics by fish and its potential consequences from a physical perspective

B Jovanović - Integrated environmental assessment and …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract The European Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the United States
Microbead Free Waters Act are credited for being ambitious in their goals for protecting the …

Microplastic pollution in rice-fish co-culture system: A report of three farmland stations in Shanghai, China

W Lv, W Zhou, S Lu, W Huang, Q Yuan, M Tian… - Science of the total …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Microplastics are emerging contaminants of increasing concern. Despite the occurrence of
microplastics in farmland soils, the knowledge on microplastics in rice-fish co-culture …

Effects of virgin microplastics on goldfish (Carassius auratus)

K Jabeen, B Li, Q Chen, L Su, C Wu, H Hollert, H Shi - Chemosphere, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are abundant in freshwater and marine environments. They are diverse
shape and size and are ingested by organisms. In this study, goldfish (Carassius auratus) …

Closing the gap between small and smaller: towards a framework to analyse nano-and microplastics in aqueous environmental samples

SM Mintenig, PS Bäuerlein, AA Koelmans… - Environmental …, 2018‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Measuring concentrations and sizes of micro-and nanoplastics in the environment is
essential to assess the risks plastic particles could pose. Microplastics have been detected …