“It appears that coastal species persist now in the open ocean as a substantial component of a ‘neopelagic’ community sustained by the vast and expanding sea of plastic debris,” the authors wrote. SERC Marine Invasions Lab Scientists found marine life on the majority of the plastic samples taken from the garbage patch. Plastic debris with a mix of coastal barnacles from the trash island.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, meanwhile, occupies more than 600,000 square miles in the open ocean between Hawaii and California, USA Today reported.īut despite the bizarre conditions, the study found that marine life is thriving and reproducing on the trash heap. Haram of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, identified 484 separate marine organisms on the samples, including crustaceans, mollusks, sea anemones, and worms.Ībout 80% of the species had coastal origins, the study said.
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