Alina Wieczorek

School of Natural Sciences

Alina Wieczorek is lead author of the Frequency of Microplastics in Mesopelagic Fishes from the Northwest Atlantic study and PhD candidate at the School of Natural Sciences and Ryan Institute at NUI Galway

"There is now evidence that some of these toxins on the microplastics can be transferred to animals that eat them with potential harmful effects" Photo: Dawid Piotr Szlaga

Not strictly fish: 73% of deep water fish contain microplastics

Report: a new study has found that nearly one in four Northwest Atlantic Ocean deep water fish have ingested microplastics

microplastics • 29 Mar 18

Alina Wieczorek

Not strictly fish: 73% of deep water fish contain microplastics

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