Microplastic fibers in the intertidal ecosystem surrounding Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia.

By Alysse Mathalon, P. Hill. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2014

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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Presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, with particular focus on seafood (2016, positive): “Degradation with 30% H 2 O 2 has been used for mussels (Mathalon and Hill, 2014) and honey and sugar (Liebezeit and Liebezeit, 2013).”
Microplastics in sediments: A review of techniques, occurrence and effects. (2015, methodology): “; Mathalon and Hill, 2014; Thompson et 303 al., 2004).”
Direct and indirect effects of microplastics on bivalves, with a focus on edible species: A mini-review (2019, background): “…of microplastic fibers found in farmed blue mussels Mytilus edulis (75 items per mussel) than in wild mussels (34 items per mussel) may be a result of the large abundance of surrounding microplastic fibers derived from plastic-based lines used in aquaculture activities (Mathalon & Hill, 2014).”
Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Distribution, Interactions and Effects (2015, background): “Whereas, fibres were primarily identified in sediment samples from an intertidal ecosystem in Nova Scotia, Canada (Mathalon and Hill 2014).”
Microplastics in bivalves and their habitat in relation to shellfish aquaculture proximity in coastal British Columbia, Canada (2019, background): “In some cases, cultured shellfish have been shown to contain higher MP concentrations than their wild counterparts (Mathalon & Hill 2014, Bendell 2015, Phuong et al. 2018), and it has been suggested that by using plastic infrastructure, shellfish aquaculture could be contaminating its own stock as…”
Microplastics in fisheries and aquaculture (2017, background): “By comparing these figures with the data published by PlasticsEurope, it appears that the exclusion of fibres actually causes an underestimation of 15 percent to 20 percent of the total plastics production depending on the year (Figure 2.2; PlasticsEurope, 2016; Industrievereinigung Chemiefaser, 201”
Microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments: Evaluating the current understanding to identify the knowledge gaps and future research priorities. (2017, background): “At 433 the highest concentrations, thousands of particles kg-1 of dry sediment have been reported in river 434 sediments in Germany (Klein et al., 2015), comparable to the 2000-8000 particles kg-1 reported by 435 Mathalon and Hill (2014) in coastal sediments in Canada.”
Feasting on microplastics: ingestion by and effects on marine organisms (2018, background): “So despite depuration, bivalves are able to retain ingested microplastics for an extended period of time (Mathalon & Hill 2014).”
Microplastics in bivalves cultured for human consumption. (2014, background): “In a recent paper, Mathalon and Hill (2014) detected microfibres in wild and farmed mussels.”
Sampling, Isolating and Identifying Microplastics Ingested by Fish and Invertebrates * (2017, background): “60 C Blue mussels Mathalon & Hill (2014) 53 H2O2 (30”
Interaction of toxic chemicals with microplastics: A critical review. (2018, background): “In addition, the number of plastic fibers found was up to 178 items/individual in Mytilus edulis from Canada (Mathalon and Hill, 2014), while the levels of MPs (0.03± 0.18 items/individual) in demersal fish from the North Sea and Baltic Sea were approximately four orders of magnitude lower than that”