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Microplastic in cod stomachs

TemaNord 2022
Adriana N. de Vries, Amy Lusher, Pernilla Carlsson, Jórun D. Pólsdóttir, Sjúrður Hammer, Catherine Chambers

Summary

This project developed a best-practice guide for analyzing plastics in fish stomachs, designed for small-scale Arctic laboratories with limited infrastructure. The protocol was applied to cod stomachs to monitor plastic presence in the North Atlantic marine environment.

This project developed a best practice guide for the standardization of the analysis of plastics in fish stomachs which can be applied in small-scale laboratories with limited infrastructure, which is typical of rural Arctic areas. In order to monitor plastic in the North Atlantic marine environment and understand potential impacts of plastics for commercially important fish stocks, it is important to standardize methods. This study also used the new method to provide a comparison between cod stomachs in Norway, Iceland and Faroe Islands and found a distribution of microplastics particles ranging from 0-27% in detection frequency.

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