Microplastics widespread in U.S. West Coast seafood (IMAGE)

Portland State University

Microplastics widespread in U.S. West Coast seafood

Caption

The researcgers quantified anthropogenic particles that they found in the edible tissue of six species that are economically or culturally important in Oregon (clockwise from top left): Chinook salmon, lingcod, black rockfish, pink shrimp, Pacific herring, and Pacific lamprey.

Credit

NOAA Fisheries, Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (black rockfish), and North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission (lamprey)

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