Smallest Plastics and the Largest Fish

#microplastics a macro-disaster:a threat to the largest fishes of our seas?research & outreach project @AlinaMWieczorek @giulidonati11 @saveourseas

[Smallest Plastics and the Largest Fish @MPLargestFish]

The first part of our documentary series and blogpost are out - research project lead by @AlinaMWieczorek (@nuigalway) and @giulidonati11 (@ETH) in collaboration with @mwsrp and support by @saveourseas. Watch full video: https://t.co/0wNBrhUk0V 🎥 by @Wildisland_film

[Smallest Plastics and the Largest Fish @MPLargestFish]

Learn more about our project on filter feeding sharks and microplastics! Thanks once more to @saveourseas and to Isla- it was such a pleasure talking science with you!

[Save Our Seas @saveourseas]

Could the ocean's largest sharks be threatened by plastic so small it can’t be seen with the naked eye?

Find out on ep.22 of #Thewholetoothpodcast with our host @isla_dawn & @alinamwieczorek @mplargestfish

Listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://t.co/vcvWrGDxEs

[Smallest Plastics and the Largest Fish @MPLargestFish]

Yesterday was a great day for team @MPLargestFish as we spotted over 60 #baskingsharks around Achill Island.

Well done @Wildisland_film on this amazing footage which we will use for our outreach programme and documentary.

@saveourseas

[Wild Island Pictures @Wildisland_film]

Around 60 Basking Sharks around Achill Island yesterday! Count some yourself 👇

@saveourseas @MPLargestFish @IWDGnews @BaskingIrish @AlinaMWieczorek @MulliganMarina @wildatlanticway @WildIreland #baskingshark

[Smallest Plastics and the Largest Fish @MPLargestFish]

An inquisitive #baskingshark came right up to our kayak as @AlinaMWieczorek was collecting plankton and microplastic samples in Keem bay to investigate diet and exposure to microplastics by these large filter feeders.

@saveourseas

[Wild Island Pictures @Wildisland_film]

Around 60 Basking Sharks around Achill Island yesterday! Count some yourself 👇

@saveourseas @MPLargestFish @IWDGnews @BaskingIrish @AlinaMWieczorek @MulliganMarina @wildatlanticway @WildIreland #baskingshark

[Smallest Plastics and the Largest Fish @MPLargestFish]

Happy #internationalwhalesharkday !

Learn more about how these beautiful and endangered creatures who gently roam our oceans and feed on plankton are exposed to #microplastics.

[Save Our Seas @saveourseas]

How do micro-plastics affect filter-feeding fish like whale sharks, manta rays and basking sharks?

To find out more go to https://t.co/0uZbjKpBXS

Artwork by Nicola Poulos | © Save Our Seas Foundation

#InternationalWhaleSharkDay

[Alina Wieczorek @AlinaMWieczorek]

Today I will be presenting the work we did in the @MPWhalesharks project over the past year to develop solutions with stakeholders to combat #plasticpollution and help protect the #largestfish and the unique habitats they live in

@IMCC2020 SSO11 - Afternoon Session

@saveourseas

[Save Our Seas @saveourseas]

Project leader Jonathan Green, who is tracking whale shark movement patterns in and around the Galápagos Marine Reserve, talks to @guardian about his research into the reproductive behaviour of whale sharks, of which very little is known.

https://t.co/3nz1F8zPJP

[Save Our Seas @saveourseas]

Endangered, filter-feeding whale sharks are at risk from plastics invisible to most of us in the seas. @AlinaMWieczorek & @giulidonati11 are investigating how these sharks scoop up microplastics as they feed & finding out where the plastics might come from
https://t.co/3gNgMczd62

[Phys.org @physorg_com]

#Whalesharks found to have tiny #teeth around their eyes @PLOSONE https://t.co/GcEprstm84

[Smallest Plastics and the Largest Fish @MPLargestFish]

#microplastic and #whaleshark research in times of COVID19 and what the pandemic tought us about the importance of #scicomm. Read our newest @saveourseas blogpost: https://t.co/HNUwZ6VJpf which includes a mini-documentary on the outreach work we do. 🎥 @Wildisland_film

[Smallest Plastics and the Largest Fish @MPLargestFish]

Baffeled 😲

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

Cormorants always feed by diving for fish, but no one had ever seen the bird go for a fish stuck to a whale shark

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

Cormorants always feed by diving for fish, but no one had ever seen the bird go for a fish stuck to a whale shark

[Smallest Plastics and the Largest Fish @MPLargestFish]

Thats fascinating - whale and basking sharks seemed to have followed suit from these guys. Only that back then they didnt encounter any #microplastics I bet you...

[John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel]

Scientists from the University of Bristol and the University of Zurich have shown that #Titanichthys, a giant armored fish that lived in the seas during the Late Devonian period 380 MYA fed in a similar manner to modern-day Basking Sharks. #FishSci
🔬:https://t.co/VNrERnkxDC

[Smallest Plastics and the Largest Fish @MPLargestFish]

In time for the kick off for our second year focussing on #microplastics and #baskingsharks we see them return to the Irish coast browsing for planctonic prey.Unfortunately due to C19 we had to postpone field work to next year but we are so glad to see them return in high numbers

[Hammy Hamilton @CuilAodhaHammy]

Filmed in Kilkee today. Wonderful to see so many together, they really seem to be making a comeback ⁦@BioDataCentre⁩ #baskingshark

[Mark Meekan @MarkMeekan]

Bomb carbon reveals the age of whale sharks: https://t.co/9i714GsKpx

[Smallest Plastics and the Largest Fish @MPLargestFish]

Want to know what dissolved #whaleshark 💩 looks like? There you go!

@AlinaMWieczorek is continuing #microplastics extraction from samples collected by @giulidonati11 @mwsrp @shamylio @ktkit_kat Bas and Iru in the Maldives 🇲🇻

@saveourseas @RyanInstitute @ETH_en @nuigalway

[SharkNewz @SharkNewz]

Endangered shark’s transatlantic move raises questions for Western researchers | The London Free Press https://t.co/iexq96OJar

[Whale Shark Rocky @WhaleSharkRocky]

YOU so GILLY! 😆🐋🦈 DYK: We can process up to 1,500 cubic gallons of water per hour! #FridayFeeling

📸: Simone Caprodossi

[Save Our Seas @saveourseas]

Are microplastics on the menu for filter-feeding whale sharks?
@AlinaMWieczorek & @giulidonati11 of @MPWhalesharks are hard at work in the Maldives to find out.

https://t.co/KyghqJC5ta

[Smallest Plastics and the Largest Fish @MPLargestFish]

Check out our newest blog where we tell you all about sample collection for plankton and microplastics. @shamylio @ktkit_kat @Wildisland_film @mwsrp @RyanInstitute @usys_ethzh

[Save Our Seas @saveourseas]

Are microplastics on the menu for filter-feeding whale sharks?
@AlinaMWieczorek & @giulidonati11 of @MPWhalesharks are hard at work in the Maldives to find out.

https://t.co/KyghqJC5ta