Publication detail

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.

Original 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

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

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.

Keywords

Plastics; Aristaeomorpha foliacea; Seafood safety; Mediterranean Sea

Authors

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

Released

15. 6. 2023

Publisher

ELSEVIER

Location

AMSTERDAM

ISBN

1879-1026

Periodical

SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Year of study

877

Number

1

State

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Pages from

1

Pages to

11

Pages count

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"
}