Open AccessMicroplastics Ingestion by Skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in Ternate, North Maluku - Indonesia
Author(s) -
Mohammad Ridwan Lessy,
Mesrawaty Sabar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1125/1/012085
Subject(s) - microplastics , skipjack tuna , fishery , plastic pollution , biota , marine debris , ecology , bay , abundance (ecology) , environmental science , aquatic ecosystem , ecosystem , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , tuna , geography , archaeology , meteorology , debris
Microplastic (MPs) is a contaminant of concern worldwide. Rivers are implicated as significant pathways of micro-plastic transport to marine and lake ecosystems, and microplastic ingestion by freshwater biota is a risk associated with microplastic contamination, but there is little research on microplastic ecology within freshwater ecosystems. Microplastic uptake by fish is likely affected by environmental microplastic abundance and aspects of fish ecology, but these relationships have rarely been addressed. We measure the distribution and abundance of micro-plastic in skipjack tuna from 3 markets in Ternate. In total 948 MPs pieces were obtained in 16 fish samples. The identified MPs characteristics show that the micro-plastic character is categorized from the type of fiber, film, and fragment, while the colour of microplastic is black, red, blue, green, brown, grey, and white.