Microplastics Contamination in the Edible Fish Mozambique Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) from the Selvampathy Wetland of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Krishnan Anandhan,Said Hamid Thangal,Arumugam Yogeshwaran, Saravanan Kaaran,Thipramalai Thangappan Ajith Kumar,Thirunavukkarasu Muralisankar

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology（2023）

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Abstract

The present study investigated the microplastics (MPs) contamination in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, gills and muscle of the Mozambique tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus sampled from the Selvampathy Lake of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. MPs abundance was found in 10 to 28, 8 to 27, and 4 to 12 particles and their size ranged between 4.4 and 210, 4.6 to 180, and 4.5 to 194 μm in the GI tract, gills and muscle, respectively. MPs were dominantly shaped as fibres (95

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Plastics,Fish,Wetland,Muscle,India,Selvampathy Lake

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