First evidence of microplastics in the African Great Lakes: Recovery from Lake Victoria Nile perch and Nile tilapia

By Fares J. Biginagwa, B. S. Mayoma, Y. Shashoua, K. Syberg, F. Khan. 2016

279 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. P. Hollman
2. Jeremy Mendoza-Hill
3. A. Lusher

In Pollution

1. P. Hollman
2. Jeremy Mendoza-Hill
3. A. Lusher

Citations in the corpus

• Microplastics in fisheries and aquaculture (2017, background): “Microplastics have been similarly observed within market-purchased freshwater fish including Nile Perch (Lates niloticus) and Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) from Lake Victoria (Tanzania), with 20 percent of each species containing microplastics in their digestive tracts (Biginagwa et al., 2016”
• Microplastics in freshwater fishes: Occurrence, impacts and future perspectives (2021, unknown): “…12 — — Sanchez et al. (2014) 4 Switzerland 40 7.5 — — Faure et al. (2015) 44 USA 419 8.2 — PP, PES, AC, PS Phillips and Bonner (2015) 2 Tanzania 40 20 — PE, PU, PET Biginagwa et al. (2016) 2 USA 436 45 0.8 — Peters and Bratton (2016) 1 South Africa 70 73 3.8 — Naidoo et al. (2016) 1 Brazil 530…”