Plastic packaging lies in a ditch along Queen Elizabeth Street in Iqaluit on May 9, 2022. Billy Merkosak, a hunter in Pond Inlet, says he's seen plastic inside the bellies of Arctic char — and ...

According to Liboiron, the plastic ingestion rate for many fish off Newfoundland is low. In cod, the rate was two per cent, meaning only two out of every 100 cod were found to have consumed plastic.

In a business-as-usual scenario, the ocean is expected to contain 1 tonne of plastic for every 3 tonnes of fish by 2025, and by 2050, more plastics than fish (by weight).” ...

According to the report, worldwide use of plastic has increased 20-fold in the past 50 years, and it is expected to double again in the next 20 years. By 2050, we’ll be making more than three ...

As a bonus, sea squirts are related in evolutionary terms to human beings. So studying them and the plastic inside them could be more insightful than looking at creatures like fish or clams.