Using this method, they estimate a humpback, which is a baleen whale, could ingest more than 300,000
microplastic particles per day.
The authors estimate using findings in zooplankton that juvenile salmon in the Strait of Georgia may be ingesting two to seven
microplastic particles per day, and returning adult salmon are ingesting up to 91 particles per day.
Not exact matches
The minimum average
microplastics pollution was found in the stretch between Basel and Mainz (202,900
particles per square kilometer), a medium average at Bad Honnef, Köln - Porz and Leverkusen (714,053) and the highest average in the Rhine - Ruhr metropolitan area (2,333,665).
A peak
microplastics concentration was measured at Rees on the Nederhijn, where 3.9 million plastic items
per square kilometer (or 21,839
particles per 1000 cubic meters) were found in a single water sample.