Fish Choose Plastic Over Zooplankton in Polluted Waters

Yale e360
By Yale Environment 360Jun 6, 2016, 2:35 am55 pts
Fish that grow up in waters full of plastic particles develop a taste for trash, choosing to eat plastic over zooplankton, their natural food source, according to a study published in the journal Science. Oona Lönnstedt The research, by ecologists at Uppsala University in Swedish, found larval perch from the…

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