Plastic pollution is omnipresent in the marine environment, including much of the Arctic. Northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) are particularly vulnerable to ingesting plastics floating on the water's surface, and are an international biomonitor of this contaminant. We sampled plastic ≥1 mm in size from the stomachs of fulmars collected by Inuit hunters in Arctic Canada, as well as beached fulmars from Sable Island, Nova Scotia. The frequency of occurrence (FO) of plastic in Arctic fulmars was 62 % (100 % in Nova Scotia), and mean mass of ingested plastic was 0.027 g, with just two birds from the Arctic (3.4 %) exceeding 0.1 g while all the birds from Sable Island (n = 3) exceeded 0.1 g. This FO was lower than data from previous collections in the Arctic and North Atlantic. Additional monitoring is required to determine whether this reduced FO represents a single year anomaly, or the start of a declining trend.

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加拿大北极和西北大西洋的北方暴风鸥 （Fulmarus glacialis） 摄入塑料


塑料污染在海洋环境中无处不在，包括北极的大部分地区。北方暴风鸥 （Fulmarus glacialis） 特别容易摄入漂浮在水面上的塑料，并且是这种污染物的国际生物监测器。我们从加拿大北极地区的因纽特猎人收集的暴风鹦鹉的胃中取样了 ≥1 毫米大小的塑料样本，以及来自新斯科舍省萨布尔岛搁浅的暴风鹦鹉。北极暴风雨中塑料的出现频率 （FO） 为 62%（新斯科舍省为 100%），摄入塑料的平均质量为 0.027 克，只有来自北极的两只鸟 （3.4%） 超过 0.1 克，而来自黑貂岛的所有鸟 （n = 3） 都超过 0.1 克。该 FO 低于以前在北极和北大西洋收集的数据。需要额外的监测来确定这种降低的 FO 是否代表一年的异常，还是下降趋势的开始。