Concerns rise over microplastics in stomachs of mackerel caught off southern Thailand

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BANGKOK (ANN): The discovery of microplastics in the stomachs of mackerel caught in the sea off Thailand's Trang province have raised concerns, but the 3rd Marine National Park Operation Centre urged Thais on Wednesday (Sept 11) to refrain from panicking and shunning mackerel.

The centre urged people to instead get full awareness of the problem and join in tackling the sea garbage crisis.

Thai social media had widely shared and discussed the centre's discovery of an estimated 78 pieces of microplastic on average in the stomachs of mackerel caught from Hat Chao Mai Beach. Realising that the garbage may have an impact on the food chain in the sea off Hat Chao Mai beach, which is the habitat of a large number of affordable commercial fish, the researchers in the past few months took 60 mackerel from fishermen and conducted lab tests on the stomachs of the fish, she said.

Meanwhile, fresh fish shops at the Nakhon Trang Municipality Market on Wednesday were still buzzing with shoppers in the morning.

 

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