More than 50 species of fish have been found to consume plastic trash at sea. This is bad news, not only for fish but potentially also for humans who rely on fish for sustenance.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Fish, it's what's for dinner for many families in Hawaii. Unfortunately new research from the University of Hawaii, Manoa shows some fish are eating a lot of plastic.

The Northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax)—a common schooling fish found off the North American west coast and a critical part of ocean food chains—consumes plastic because it smells like prey ...

As plastic continues to accumulate in our oceans, scientists are looking at the long-term effects that the man-made material might have on the animals that eat it, and on the animals that eat them.

“This problem of animals eating plastic has not been investigated as completely as it should have been,” says Savoca. Seabirds and fish aren’t stupid, he says, and generally they are good at ...

If fish eat plastic, and we eat the fish, are we consuming toxic chemicals? It's a growing concern, especially when 60-percent of Opah analyzed, had plastic. Skip to content. HI Now Daily.

It’s become an all-too-common variety of news story: Dead whales whose digestive systems are clogged with plastic. Increasing numbers of seabirds eating plastic, often with dire consequences. Ditto ...

The majority of the plastic pollution in the ocean, by volume, comes in the form of tiny confetti-sized particles, which, as anyone who's ever kept a pet fish can attest, resemble fish food. And ...

The smallest fish (8.35 ± 0.07 mm) were those reared in the highest microplastic concentrations, while fish reared in the absence of plastic pollutants were the longest (9.17 ± 0.1 mm).

Removing a fish’s entrails before serving it up appeared to eliminate the risk of eating plastic. But recent research suggests that these tiny bits of plastic move into fish flesh .

The pollutant ends up in the ocean, entering the food chain and, ultimately, ending up in our dinner. Sadly, a lot of our plastic waste is ending up in the ocean. A recent report showed that at ...