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75% of the more than 150 fish in New Zealand contain microplastics

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Wellington, Sept.
24 (Xinhua) -- A team of researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand found that three-quarters of the more than 150 wild fish caught in a sea area in southern New Zealand contain microplastics
.

Using microscopes and Raman spectroscopy, the researchers studied 155 samples of 10 species of marine fish of great commercial value captured off the coast of Otago for more than a year, and found that 75% of the studied marine fish contained microplastics, each fish detected an average of 2.

The study found that the content of microplastics in fish living at different depths in the above sea areas is similar, indicating that microplastics are ubiquitous
in the sea under study.

Microplastics usually refer to plastic particles with a particle size of less than 5 mm
.

The results were published in a new issue of the UK Marine Pollution Bulletin
.

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