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Microplastics and chemical contamination in aquaculture ecosystems: The role of climate change and implications for food safety—a review

Researchers reviewed how microplastics and toxic chemicals contaminate aquaculture ecosystems — the fish farms that feed hundreds of millions of people — and found that the growing threat of climate change is making contamination worse by altering how pollutants move and accumulate in aquatic food. The review calls for better quantification of aquaculture's role in both generating and absorbing plastic pollution to protect global food safety.

2024 Environmental Sciences Europe 35 citations
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Climate change and microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems: ecological and societal consequences

This review examines how climate change amplifies the ecological and societal impacts of microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems. The study suggests that rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and altered precipitation patterns accelerate plastic fragmentation and dispersal, creating compounding effects on water quality, biodiversity, and coastal communities.

2026 Frontiers in Science
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A Comprehensive Review of Climatic Threats and Adaptation of Marine Biodiversity

This comprehensive review examines how climate change threatens marine biodiversity through rising ocean temperatures, acidification, and habitat loss. Among the many environmental stressors discussed, microplastic pollution is highlighted as an additional threat that compounds the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems. The paper evaluates adaptation strategies like marine protected areas and habitat restoration that could help protect the ocean ecosystems humans depend on for food.

2024 Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 33 citations
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Economic and Ecological Impacts of Climate Change on Coastal Fisheries: A Global Analysis of Vulnerability and Adaptive Management Strategies

Researchers conducted a global analysis of how climate change compounds existing threats to coastal fisheries, including pollution from microplastics and other anthropogenic stressors. The study evaluated vulnerability across regions and assessed adaptive management strategies. The findings suggest that integrated approaches addressing both climate and pollution pressures are needed to sustain coastal fisheries.

2025 American journal of student research. 1 citations
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The effect of climate change and microplastics on the physiology of marine invertebrates of economic interest

This thesis examines how climate change and microplastic pollution interact to affect the physiology of marine invertebrates important for aquaculture. Combined stressors were found to have compounding effects on organisms like mussels and oysters, threatening both ecosystems and food security.

2023 LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)
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Climate change and microplastics: a two-way interaction

This review characterises the bidirectional relationship between microplastics and climate change: plastics production and degradation generate greenhouse gases, while rising temperatures and changing precipitation alter MP distribution and toxicity in ecosystems. It calls for integrated strategies that address both plastic pollution and climate change.

2025 Emerging Contaminants and Environmental Health 2 citations
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Research progress in ecotoxicology of climate change coupled with marine pollutions

This review examined how rising ocean temperatures and acidification from climate change interact with marine pollutants including microplastics, finding that combined stressors often produce worse effects than either alone. The research underscores that plastic pollution cannot be addressed in isolation from the broader context of global climate change.

2017 Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version) 2 citations
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Research progress on the interaction between climate change and marine microplastic pollution

This review examines the two-way relationship between climate change and marine microplastic pollution, finding that rising ocean temperatures, acidification, and hypoxia can accelerate plastic fragmentation and alter how microplastics are distributed and ingested by marine life. Conversely, microplastics may affect carbon cycling and plankton productivity in ways that feed back into climate dynamics. The findings highlight that microplastic risks cannot be assessed in isolation from the broader context of a changing ocean.

2024 Scientia Sinica Chimica 2 citations
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Microplastics in Aquaculture

This review examines how microplastic accumulation in water bodies threatens aquaculture by affecting fish and shellfish growth, reproduction, behavior, and survival, with marine bycatch used as fishmeal identified as a key pathway for microplastic entry into aquaculture feed systems. The authors assess the extent of microplastic invasion into commercial aquaculture operations and the implications for seafood safety.

2024
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Examine How Microplastics and Macroplastics in Freshwater and Marine Habitats Affect Aquatic Species and Ecosystems

This review examines how both microplastics and macroplastics harm aquatic organisms and ecosystems in freshwater and marine environments, summarizing evidence of physical injury, chemical toxicity, and food web disruption.

2023 Kaav International Journal of Science Engineering & Technology A Peer Review Quarterly Journal
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The circularity of marine microplastics under the influence of climate change

This review examines how climate change affects the lifecycle and circulation of marine microplastics, including how warming and shifting currents alter where plastics travel and accumulate. The interaction between plastic pollution and climate change creates feedback loops that remain poorly understood.

2023 1 citations
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Bridging the gap: a review on the interaction between (micro)plastics and climate change

This review examined the two-way relationship between climate change and microplastic pollution. Researchers found that climate-driven changes like rising temperatures, altered weather patterns, and ocean acidification can accelerate microplastic breakdown and redistribute particles across ecosystems, while plastic production and degradation processes themselves contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, creating a reinforcing cycle.

2025 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 1 citations
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Microplastics and their potential effects on the aquaculture systems: a critical review

This review examines the sources, distribution, and potential ecological effects of microplastics in aquaculture systems worldwide. Researchers found that microplastics enter aquaculture through feed, water intake, and atmospheric deposition, and can accumulate in farmed fish and shellfish tissues. The study highlights the need for monitoring programs and mitigation strategies to protect both aquaculture productivity and consumer safety from microplastic contamination.

2020 Reviews in Aquaculture 154 citations
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Navigating the nexus: climate dynamics and microplastics pollution in coastal ecosystems

This review examines how climate change and microplastic pollution interact in coastal ecosystems, finding that rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and stronger storms are spreading microplastics further and faster into marine environments. These climate-driven changes also accelerate plastic breakdown into smaller, more dangerous particles that are more easily absorbed by marine life. The combination of worsening climate conditions and increasing plastic pollution poses a growing threat to both coastal ecosystems and the millions of people who depend on them for food.

2024 Environmental Research 13 citations
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Microplastics and their Impact on the Marine Environment

This review examines how plastic debris in the ocean degrades into microplastics and affects marine ecosystems. The authors discuss how surface plastics reduce heat absorption and how degrading plastics release greenhouse gases, potentially contributing to climate change. The review also highlights the role of ocean plastic in altering marine food webs and threatening biodiversity.

2023 2 citations
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Microplastic and nanoplastic pollution: Assessing translocation, impact, and mitigation strategies in marine ecosystems

This review examines how microplastics and nanoplastics move through marine ecosystems, contaminating species from tiny plankton to large fish through processes like biofouling and chemical leaching. The plastics interact with other environmental stressors like climate change and chemical pollution, compounding their effects on marine food webs. The authors highlight that nanoplastics, which form as microplastics break down further, may pose additional unique risks that are not yet well understood.

2025 Water Environment Research 20 citations
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The Challenge of Microplastics in Aquatic Ecosystem: A Review of Current Consensus and Future Trends of the Effect on the Fish

This review synthesizes research on how microplastics affect aquatic ecosystems, covering ingestion by marine animals, trophic transfer up the food chain, and the chemicals that microplastics carry. The findings highlight that microplastic contamination is now widespread enough to threaten marine biodiversity and food security for populations that rely on seafood.

2023 BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks
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Assessing Impact of Microplastics on Aquatic Food System and Human Health

This review assesses the impact of microplastics on aquatic food systems and human health, noting that aquatic species exposed to microplastics over extended periods can experience oxidative stress, genotoxicity, neurotoxicity, and reproductive issues. The study highlights that microplastics also act as carriers for other chemical pollutants in aquatic environments, compounding their potential risks through the food chain.

2023 Preprints.org 12 citations
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Plastic Pollution is a Serious Menace to Ecosystem Health with Special Reference to Aquatic Ecosystems and its Associated Challenges, Opportunities, and Mitigations

This review examines how plastic pollution, including microplastics, threatens aquatic ecosystem health, affecting fish, birds, and mammals through ingestion, entanglement, and chemical exposure. Researchers highlighted that our understanding of microplastic dynamics — their release, retention, accumulation, and transfer across ecosystems — remains limited. The study calls for more research into the long-term ecological consequences of microplastic contamination in aquatic environments.

2024 3 citations
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The contribution of aquaculture systems to global aquaculture production

This review examines how global aquaculture has grown since 2000 through better feeds, improved management, and intensification, and discusses the environmental challenges that remain. While not directly about microplastics, aquaculture environments are increasingly contaminated with plastic particles, which can accumulate in farmed fish and shellfish that millions of people depend on for food.

2023 Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 219 citations