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Microplastics in large marine animals stranded in the Republic of Korea
Marine Pollution Bulletin2023
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Byeongyong Park,
Nan-Seon Song,
Hee-Jee Lee,
Byeongyong Park,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Byeongyong Park,
Nan-Seon Song,
Sung Bin Lee,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Tae Won Kim,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Jisu Kim,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Byeongyong Park,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Hee-Jee Lee,
Sang Wha Kim,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Nan-Seon Song,
Nan-Seon Song,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Young-Ran Lee,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Jisu Kim,
Nan-Seon Song,
Nan-Seon Song,
Hee-Jee Lee,
Hee-Jee Lee,
Hee-Jee Lee,
Hee-Jee Lee,
Hee-Jee Lee,
Hee-Jee Lee,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Sung Bin Lee,
Soobin Joo,
Tae Won Kim,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Jisu Kim,
Jisu Kim,
Jisu Kim,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Jisu Kim,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Hee-Jee Lee,
Nan-Seon Song,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Byung-Yeob Kim,
Nan-Seon Song,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Sang Wha Kim,
Tae Won Kim,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Hee-Jee Lee,
Nan-Seon Song,
Byung-Yeob Kim,
Soobin Joo,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Tae Won Kim,
Sunmin Kim,
Tae Won Kim,
Jisu Kim,
Kyungsik Jo,
Jisu Kim,
Kyungsik Jo,
Kyungsik Jo,
Nan-Seon Song,
Nan-Seon Song,
Kyungsik Jo,
Jibin Im,
Nan-Seon Song,
Jibin Im,
Jibin Im,
Hee-Jee Lee,
Jibin Im,
Jisu Kim,
Hee-Jee Lee,
Jisu Kim,
Sang Wha Kim,
Sung Bin Lee,
Byung-Yeob Kim,
Sunmin Kim,
Young-Ran Lee,
Youngran Lee,
Byung-Yeob Kim,
Tae‐Won Kim,
Tae Won Kim,
Seung‐Kyu Kim
Summary
Researchers analyzed microplastics in the digestive tracts of 12 stranded marine animals in South Korea, including whales, porpoises, dolphins, and sea turtles, detecting microplastic contamination across all species examined between 2019 and 2021.
Microplastics (MPs) are found in every ocean and are frequently ingested by marine animals. This study analyzed MPs in the stomachs and intestines of 12 large marine animals comprising one fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), seven finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis), two loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta), one Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), and one common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) that were stranded off the Republic of Korea between 2019 and 2021. MPs were detected with a mean abundance of 3.42 ± 3.2 items/g and were predominantly of transparent-white, fragment-shaped polypropylene smaller than 200 μm. The abundance of MPs found did not correlate with the biological information (maturity, body length) of the finless porpoises and there were no significant differences in the abundance of MPs between the stomachs and intestines. These results cannot accurately assess the impact of MPs on large marine animals, so further studies are necessary to understand how MPs can potentially affect them.