Microplastics in fish gut, first records from the Tom River in West Siberia, Russia | Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Biologiya - Tomsk State University Journal of Biology. 2020. № 52. DOI: 10.17223/19988591/52/7

Microplastics in fish gut, first records from the Tom River in West Siberia, Russia

This preliminary study investigated the abundance of microplastic particles in gastrointestinal tracts of the dace (Leuciscus leuciscus L.) from the Tom River, a large tributary of the Ob River in West Siberia. A total of 13 dace specimens of 2+ to 4+ years of age were studied. Microplastic particles extractedfrom fish guts were counted and classified by shapes and sizes. In average 204 ± 28.7 items of microplastics were detected for one dace specimen. Microplastic particles were categorized as fragments of irregular shape (70%), spheres (16%), films (7%) andfibers (7%), with size ranging from <0.15 to 2.00 mm. The vast majority of detected microplastic particles (almost 80%) were less than 0.15 mm by their largest dimension. These data provide the first evidence of microplastics in fish from the Ob River system.

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microplastics, aquatic pollution, rivers, hydrobionts, fish, food chains

Authors

Name	Organization	E-mail
Frank Yulia A.	Tomsk State University; Darwin LLC	yulia.a.frank@gmail.com
Vorobiev Egor D.	Tomsk State University	vorobievegor@gmail.com
Babkina Irina B.	Tomsk State University	bibsphera@gmail.com
Antsiferov Dmitry V.	Darwin LLC	dmitry.antsiferov@gmail.com
Vorobiev Danil S.	Tomsk State University	danilvorobiev@yandex.ru

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