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July 1, 2011

Plastic Found in 9% of 'Garbage Patch' Fish

Univ. of California-San Diego, University of California-San Diego


UCSD

The first scientific results from an ambitious voyage led by a group of graduate students from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego offer a stark view of human pollution and its infiltration of an area of the ocean that has been labeled as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

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TAGGED: fish, plastics, great pacific garbage patch

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