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First Report of Plastic Fragments in the Lanternfishes Collected from the Sea of Oman
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Researchers documented for the first time that lanternfish — deep-sea fish that migrate vertically each day — collected from the Sea of Oman had ingested plastic fragments. Because lanternfish are abundant and widely eaten by larger predators, their plastic ingestion could serve as a pathway for microplastics to move deeper into marine food webs and eventually into seafood consumed by humans.
The result presented in this chapter underlines for the first time the occurrence of plastic waste in the stomachs of Sea of Oman lanternfishes (Myctophidae), Benthosema fibulatum (Gilbert and Cramer 1897) and Benthosema pterotum (Alcock 1890). Fish samples were...
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