Baby Fish Feast on Microplastics, and Then Get Eaten

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

• Episode: Baby Fish Feast on Microplastics, and Then Get Eaten
• Website: WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More
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• Duration: 00:05:06
• Published: 2019-11-12 22:29

Teeming off Hawaii’s famous beaches is a complex web of life—sharks, turtles, seabirds—that relies enormously on tiny larval fish, the food for many species. In their first few weeks of existence the larvae are at the mercy of currents, still too puny to get around on their own, gathering by their millions in surface “slicks” where currents meet.