Ingestion of prey intensifies microplastic load in Mediterranean commercial fish

IF 2.2 3区地球科学 Q2 OCEANOGRAPHY

Continental Shelf Research Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI:10.1016/j.csr.2025.105496

Alessandra Cera , Silvia Secco , Iliana Matarazzi , Monica Orsini , Serena De Santis , Massimiliano Scalici

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Abstract

We describe the ingestion of plastics by four edible fish species from the Western Mediterranean Sea (Fiumicino, Italy): Micromesistius poutassou, Mullus barbatus, Sardina pilchardus, and Trachurus trachurus. Microparticles smaller than 1 mm, particularly blue fibres made of cellophane, are the most found in terms of size, colour, shape, and polymer. The highest level of contamination was found in Sardina pilchardus and in stomachs containing prey across all species. We have gathered evidence from commercially relevant fishes, of which two can be good bioindicators of microplastics (M. barbatus and T. trachurus), and one is poorly investigated (M. poutassou) in order to contribute to the overall assessments of the MP-induced risks for the Mediterranean ecosystem and human activity.

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食入猎物会加剧地中海商业鱼类的微塑料负荷

我们描述了来自西地中海（Fiumicino, Italy）的四种可食用鱼类对塑料的摄入：Micromesistius poutassou， Mullus barbatus， Sardina pilchardus和Trachurus Trachurus。小于1毫米的微粒，特别是由玻璃纸制成的蓝色纤维，在大小、颜色、形状和聚合物方面都是最常见的。污染程度最高的是沙丁鱼和所有物种的猎物胃。我们从与商业相关的鱼类中收集了证据，其中两种可以作为微塑料的良好生物指标（barbatus和T. trachurus），另一种研究较少（M. poutassou），以有助于对mp引起的地中海生态系统和人类活动风险的总体评估。

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来源期刊

Continental Shelf Research 地学-海洋学

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

4.30%

发文量

136

审稿时长

6.1 months

期刊介绍： Continental Shelf Research publishes articles dealing with the biological, chemical, geological and physical oceanography of the shallow marine environment, from coastal and estuarine waters out to the shelf break. The continental shelf is a critical environment within the land-ocean continuum, and many processes, functions and problems in the continental shelf are driven by terrestrial inputs transported through the rivers and estuaries to the coastal and continental shelf areas. Manuscripts that deal with these topics must make a clear link to the continental shelf. Examples of research areas include: Physical sedimentology and geomorphology Geochemistry of the coastal ocean (inorganic and organic) Marine environment and anthropogenic effects Interaction of physical dynamics with natural and manmade shoreline features Benthic, phytoplankton and zooplankton ecology Coastal water and sediment quality, and ecosystem health Benthic-pelagic coupling (physical and biogeochemical) Interactions between physical dynamics (waves, currents, mixing, etc.) and biogeochemical cycles Estuarine, coastal and shelf sea modelling and process studies.