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Plastic pollution in the deep-sea Giant red shrimp, Aristaeomorpha foliacea, in the Eastern Ionian Sea; an alarm point on stock and human health safety

BORDBAR, L. SEDLÁČEK, P. ANASTASOPOULOU, A.

Originální název

Plastic pollution in the deep-sea Giant red shrimp, Aristaeomorpha foliacea, in the Eastern Ionian Sea; an alarm point on stock and human health safety

Typ

článek v časopise ve Web of Science, Jimp

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Plastic litter, including microplastics, is an ever-growing threat adversely affecting a variety of marine organisms; how-ever, their known effects on marine organisms are still lacking. Aristaeomorpha foliacea is a valuable commercial deep-sea species in the Mediterranean Sea. Hence, due to its importance to human consumption, the investigation of plastic impact on these animals is vitally necessary. In this study the occurrence of ingested plastics has been studied in the giant red shrimp for the first time in the eastern Ionian Sea, as well as any possible differences regarding the plastic ingestion per sex, size, year and its relation to shrimp's health condition. A total of 621 individuals were collected from the Essential Habitat of this species in the eastern Ionian Sea. Plastics were contained in the stomachs of 14.65 % of the examined individuals, with an average of 2.97 +/- 0.3 items per stomach. The occurrence of plastics was higher in males than in females. The ingested plastics detected were exclusively fibers of different sizes, colors, and shapes (single form or tangled balls). Plastic items size ranged from 0.75 to 110.59 mm. Significant differences in the occurrence of plastic in the stomachs of A. foliacea were found among years, stations and sex, whereas no con-siderable effect on shrimp's health condition factors was found. The chemical analysis of plastics showed that 83.82 % of fibers were polyester (PET). Among the shrimps with ingested plastics, the immature individuals were predominant (85.18 %). The results of this study aspire to increase the knowledge on plastics ingestion in the Mediterranean, and highlight the various factors that may be involved in this process. This study demonstrates the obvious threats of plastics in commonly edible shrimps and emphasizes the role of this decapod at the trophic chain by transferring plastics to humans.

Klíčová slova

Plastics; Aristaeomorpha foliacea; Seafood safety; Mediterranean Sea

Autoři

BORDBAR, L.; SEDLÁČEK, P.; ANASTASOPOULOU, A.

Vydáno

15. 6. 2023

Nakladatel

ELSEVIER

Místo

AMSTERDAM

ISSN

1879-1026

Periodikum

SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Ročník

877

Číslo

1

Stát

Nizozemsko

Strany od

1

Strany do

11

Strany počet

11

URL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723013992

BibTex

@article{BUT184407,
  author="BORDBAR, L. and SEDLÁČEK, P. and ANASTASOPOULOU, A.",
  title="Plastic pollution in the deep-sea Giant red shrimp, Aristaeomorpha foliacea, in the Eastern Ionian Sea; an alarm point on stock and human health safety",
  journal="SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT",
  year="2023",
  volume="877",
  number="1",
  pages="1--11",
  doi="10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162783",
  issn="1879-1026",
  url="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723013992"
}