Plastic Ingestion by Phocoena Phocoena and Tursiops Truncatus from the Black Sea

Svetlana Mihova; Valentina Doncheva; Kremena Stefanova; Elitsa Stefanova; Dimitar Popov; Marina Panayotova

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-26754-3_26

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Plastic Ingestion by Phocoena Phocoena and Tursiops Truncatus from the Black Sea

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Svetlana Mihova, Valentina Doncheva, Kremena Stefanova, Elitsa Stefanova, Dimitar Popov, Marina Panayotova

Summary

Post-mortem examination of harbor porpoises and bottlenose dolphins stranded in the Black Sea between 2020 and 2021 confirmed the presence of microplastics in their stomach contents and intestines. Plastic ingestion in Black Sea cetaceans demonstrates that microplastic contamination has reached even apex marine mammals in semi-enclosed regional seas, signaling widespread ecosystem-level pollution.

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Digestive

Stomach contents and intestines of two species of cetaceans from the superfamily toothed whales (Odontoceti), collected in the western part of the Black Sea during the period 2020–2021 were inspected for the presence of plastic particles. Microplastics...

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