Investigating the Effects of Microplastic Ingestion in Scyliorhinus canicula from the South of Sicily
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Plastic pollution is increasing dramatically worldwide, causing adverse effects on a wide variety of marine organisms at all trophic levels. As predators, sharks play a key role in marine ecosystems and they could especially be threatened by the ingestion of microplastics. This study contributes to expand the existing data on the MPs ingestion by a Mediterranean elasmobranch species, Scyliorhinus canicula, adding new information on the potential impact that this class of contaminants can have on the metabolism of this ecologically relevant species. The present research is aimed: i) to assess if the ingestion of MPs in S. canicula is related to sex, size and depth of catch; ii) to evaluate the effect of MPs on fish body condition; iii) to evaluate if the ingested MPs influence the amino acid and fatty acid composition of eye and liver. A total of 61 specimens of S. canicula were analysed. Forty-nine individuals (80.3 %) had ingested plastic items. Totally, 147 plastic elements were found, mainly belonging to small MPs (49 %), and large MPs (46 %), mostly represented by fibers (84 %). The predominant colour was black. No differences were found between sex and size. A difference in the number of items/specimens related to the deep, highest between 50 and 100 m (4.4), while the lowest between 101 and 500 m (2.1) was found. The condition factor (Kn) value was equal to 1.00 highlighting the wellness of the fish. Arginine (20.1 %), Glutamate (17.4), Phenylalanine (15.7 %), Proline (15.6 %) and were the most abundant amino acids in the eyes of S. canicula. The relative fatty acid composition of the livers was dominated by fatty acids SA (30.2 %) (SFA), CA (29.9 %) (SFA) and OA (22.4 %) (MUFA). This paper reports a study on the relationship between amino acids and fatty acids composition and ingested MPs, highlighting that no significant effects were found.
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Mancuso et al. did not find any effect or correlation between MPs abundance and amino acids and fatty acid levels (eye and liver) in Scyliorhinus canicula.
“On the contrary, Mancuso et al. [46], analyzing the amino acids and fatty acids levels (eye and liver) in relation to the presence of MPs in the GIT of Scyliorhinus canicula, did not find any effect or correlation between MPs’ abundance and amino acids and fatty acid (see Table 1).”
From Is Wild Marine Biota Affected by Microplastics? (2022) · cites this paper as [46]
Some studies reported no direct effect of MPs ingestion on health status through using Fulton's condition or Kn.
“Some studies reported no direct effect of MPs’ ingestion on health status through using Fulton’s condition [33,44,45,52,53,56,59] or Kn [46,47].”
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- Authors
- Monique, M., Giuseppe, P., Francesca, F., Davide, D. P., Savoca, S., Gioele, C., Teresa, R., Giovanni, P., Eleonora, G., Nunziacarla, S., Gioacchino, B., Giuliano, S., & Teresa, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Messina (IT)
- Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (IT)
- National Research Council (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Savoca, Serena
- ORCID
- Savoca, Serena
- Venue
- Science of The Total Environment
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-12
- Volume
- 850
- Pages
- 157875
- ISSN
- 0048-9697 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4291922946
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 66
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 3
- FWCI
- 1.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- The Science of The Total Environment (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Keywords
- microplastic ingestion, Scyliorhinus canicula, smooth hammerhead shark, plastic pollution, marine plastic debris, amino acid composition, fatty acid composition, ocular tissues, liver tissue, plastic fibers, depth distribution
- MeSH terms
- Microplastics, Amino Acids, Animals, Arginine, Eating, Environmental Monitoring, Fatty Acids, Fishes, Glutamates, Phenylalanine, Plastics, Proline, Sharks, Sicily, Water Pollutants, Chemical, Ecosystem
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