UC DAVIS TEAM FINDS PLASTICS AND SYNTHETIC FIBERS IN FISH
@ According to a new study by environmental scientists at UC Davis, they have found a considerable amount of synthetic clothing fibers inside fish captured off the Northern California coast .//
@ According to lead researcher Chelsea Rochman of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, it was found that nearly a quarter of the 64 fish bought at©fish markets in Half Moon Bay and Princeton and examined for the study consisted of pieces of synthetic clothing in their guts .//
@ On Thursday, the study was published in the journal of Scientific Reports .// The study appeared after a research carried out by the San Francisco Estuary Institute, in which it was found that San Francisco Bay*s surface is largely contaminated with plastic microbeads that are used to manufacture cosmetics and plastic fibers from clothing .//
@ The researchers found plastic clothing fibers in the guts of nearly one fourth of the anchovy, smelt, rockfish, salmon, bass, sanddab, cod and oysters .//
©Rochman said that insufficient filtering by sewage treatment plants and home laundry users could be the source of the contamination .//