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A Screening-Level Ecological Risk Assessment for Microplastics in Seafood in American Samoa

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Selective Ingestion of Microplastics by Oysters: Exposure Assessment as a Predictive Tool for Assessing the Environmental Risk to Commercially-Important Bivalves

A microscope image of microfibers trapped in an oyster gill.

Microplastic Ingestion by the Black Sea Bass, Centropristis striata: An Assessment of Potential Impacts on the Health of an Atlantic Commercial Fish Species

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Assessment of Plastic Marine Debris Export Mechanisms and Risk to Sea Scallop Fisheries of the Mid-Atlantic Bight

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2019 Marine Debris Calendar Art Contest Winners

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