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RE: A study of mesopelagic fish found that 73 % of them had plastic in their gut!
Yikes, after seeing the gut from that albatross, I wondered how terrible the inside of a whale would have looked. I knew that plastic could have been an initial choking hazard to some animals, but I never even considered the fact that birds, bigger fish, and larger animals in general are probably full of non-biodegradable junk. It' scary to consider how much there is already out there and that some stuff can't even be effectively be re-cylced.
Let me tell you, those whales do not look good at all.. We had a "plastic whale" beach stranding here in Norway a year ago, and it was on obvious pain, so it was put down. When dissected, they found 30 plastic bags in its stomach. I'm not completely sure which species of whale it was, but it was about 6 meters long.
You can see pictures in this article by the Norwegian newspaper NRK is you are interested.