Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 245, Issue -, Pages 1071-1078Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.11.083
Keywords
Sea cucumber; Microplastics ingestion; Deposit feeder; coelomic fluid; Sediment
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41576122, 41776161]
- Agricultural Seed Project of Shandong Province [2016LZGC032]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS [2016196]
- Taishan Scholars Program (Distinguished Taishan Scholars)
- Creative Team Project of the Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology [LMEES-CTSP-2018-1]
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Microplastic ingestion by the farmed sea cucumber is undocumented. Microplastics were isolated from the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus that was collected from eight farms along the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea in China. To examine microplastic ingestion, the intestines were isolated, digested and then subjected to the floatation test. The microplastic abundance in the sediment ranged from 20 to 1040 particles kg(-1) of dry sediment, while the ingested microplastics ranged from 0 to 30 particles intestine(-1). After filtering the coelomic fluid, the extracted microplastics from the coelomic fluid ranged from 0 to 19 particles animal(-1). Thus, we speculated that microplastics may transfer to the coelomic fluid of sea cucumber. The ingested micropiastics did not correlate with the animal body weight but was site dependent, suggesting that sea cucumber may serve as sentinel for microplastic pollution monitoring in the sediment. The microplastics were identified by Fourier transform infrared micro spectroscopy, and the polymer types were mainly cellophane, polyester, and polyethylene terephthalate. This study revealed that, microplastics widely existed in sea cucumber farms, and that sea cucumbers ingest microplastics as suitable with their mouth open. Moreover, the microptastics might transfer to the coelomic fluid of the sea cucumber. Further investigations are needed to assess the chronic effect of the microplastics on the growth and physiological status of the sea cucumber. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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