PMID- 38030841
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20240118
LR  - 20240118
IS  - 1614-7499 (Electronic)
IS  - 0944-1344 (Linking)
VI  - 31
IP  - 1
DP  - 2024 Jan
TI  - Microplastic in fishes: the first report from a Himalayan River - Alaknanda.
PG  - 1637-1643
LID - 10.1007/s11356-023-30889-8 [doi]
AB  - The present study aimed to understand microplastic (MP) ingestion by five fish 
      species with different feeding habits namely, Schizothorax richardsonii and 
      Crossocheilus latius (herbivore),Cyprinus carpio (omnivore), Tor chelenoid 
      (herbi-omnivore), and Botia horii (carnivore). The fishes were sampled from River 
      Alaknanda (one of the headwaters of River Ganga) patch at Srinagar, Garhwal, 
      Uttarakhand. The fish gut samples were digested with 30% hydrogen peroxide and 
      vacuum filtered through glass microfiber filter. Each filter paper was observed 
      microscopically to count MPs, and then, selected MPs were chemically 
      characterized using Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transform Infrared 
      Spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). The results revealed that all the species were 
      contaminated with MPs and the rate of MP ingestion varied with feeding habits. 
      The herbi-omnivore fish, Tor chelenoid, was observed to have the highest MP 
      ingestion. Among the analyzed particles, fibers (66%) were the dominant type of 
      MPs. The MPs were chemically characterized as High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE), 
      Polypropylene (PP), and Polyester. This study contributes as a reference for the 
      forthcoming researches, as it is the pioneer work on the ingestion of MP by 
      fishes of a Himalayan River.
CI  - (c) 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, 
      part of Springer Nature.
FAU - Bhatt, Vaishali
AU  - Bhatt V
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0342-8956
AD  - Aquatic Ecology Lab, Department of Himalayan Aquatic Biodiversity, Hemvati Nandan 
      Bahuguna Garhwal University (A Central University), Garhwal, Srinagar, 
      Uttarakhand, 246174, India.
FAU - Badola, Neha
AU  - Badola N
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8643-2610
AD  - Aquatic Ecology Lab, Department of Himalayan Aquatic Biodiversity, Hemvati Nandan 
      Bahuguna Garhwal University (A Central University), Garhwal, Srinagar, 
      Uttarakhand, 246174, India.
FAU - Chauhan, Jaspal Singh
AU  - Chauhan JS
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7118-2636
AD  - Aquatic Ecology Lab, Department of Himalayan Aquatic Biodiversity, Hemvati Nandan 
      Bahuguna Garhwal University (A Central University), Garhwal, Srinagar, 
      Uttarakhand, 246174, India. jaspal.chauhan@hnbgu.ac.in.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20231130
PL  - Germany
TA  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
JT  - Environmental science and pollution research international
JID - 9441769
RN  - 0 (Microplastics)
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Microplastics
MH  - Plastics
MH  - Rivers
MH  - *Carps
MH  - *Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Fishes
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Alaknanda
OT  - Fish
OT  - Freshwater ecosystem
OT  - Himalaya
OT  - Microplastic
OT  - River
EDAT- 2023/11/30 00:43
MHDA- 2024/01/18 06:43
CRDT- 2023/11/29 23:38
PHST- 2023/04/24 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/11/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/01/18 06:43 [medline]
PHST- 2023/11/30 00:43 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/11/29 23:38 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-023-30889-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-023-30889-8 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Jan;31(1):1637-1643. doi: 
      10.1007/s11356-023-30889-8. Epub 2023 Nov 30.