Student project tracking microplastics found in Bering Strait-area spotted seals

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“It’s unfortunately something very ubiquitous for the Arctic and for the world,” said Alexandria Sletten of her findings at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the latest discovery of microplastics' global presence. (via AlaskaBeacon)

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A University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student has found them in the stomachs of spotted seals harvested in the Bering Strait region. Of 29 stomachs that The stomachs she used for sampling were from seals harvested in 2012 and 2020 by residents of Shishmaref, an Inupiat village on the Chukchi Sea coast, and Gambell, a Siberian Yup’ik village on St. Lawrence Island in the northern Bering Sea. They were made available for her research through the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’sproject, through which seal hunters donate specimens that are stored and made available to researchers.

 

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