According to a Scripps study, 9% of "garbage patch" fish showed evidence of plastic ingestion -- the fish that serve as food-chain fish for the ones we eat are eating little toxic plastic bombs.
And in the oceans on planet earth there will be more plastic garbage than fish.
It's estimated that, by 2050, there will be more plastic garbage than fish in the oceans.
The Hawaii survey turned up masses of this typical ocean garbage, including fishing nets and traps, Mallos said.
The tilapia farmers here originally introduced alligators as garbage disposals for fish carcasses, but they soon became a tourist attraction.
There are children who jump into the jaws of garbage trucks to fish things out before they even reach the dump site.
Pasternack lives in Long Beach and, for a while, had a habit of schlepping to Esca, on the Long Island Rail Road, plastic garbage bags containing fish that he'd caught the previous day.
She set her satchel, decorated with the Puerto Rican flag, atop a garbage can and fished out her $8 discount ferry ticket.
They have been working on the canal for a month but do not seem particularly discouraged that the garbage they have fished out continues piling up, without getting hauled away.
Ms. Collier, 17, said that on a previous trip to Rikers she could not find a locker, so she had hidden her phone in a garbage can and fished it out later.
Finally, the papers offers suggestions regarding future efforts focusing on debris reduction strategies to further address the problem of garbage pollution from fishing vessels.
