Plastic for Dinner: A Quarter of Fish Sold at Markets Contain Human-Made Debris

IET WebDev — September 24, 2015 - 9:05am

Roughly a quarter of the fish sampled from fish markets in California and Indonesia contained human-made debris — plastic or fibrous material — in their guts, according to a study from the University of California, Davis, and Hasanuddin University in Indonesia.

The study, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, is one of the first to directly link plastic and human-made debris to the fish on consumers’ dinner plates.

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Plastic for Dinner: A Quarter of Fish Sold at Markets Contain Human-Made Debris