{"id":142819,"date":"2022-07-25T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/microplastics-pass-through-fish-altering-nutrient-metabolism"},"modified":"2022-07-25T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:22:41","slug":"microplastics-pass-through-fish-altering-nutrient-metabolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/microplastics-pass-through-fish-altering-nutrient-metabolism","title":{"rendered":"Microplastics pass through fish, altering nutrient metabolism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microplastics-pass-through-fish-altering-nutrient-metabolism.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Dong-Fang Deng and her students make feed for the fish they raise at UWM\u2019s School of Freshwater Sciences, they often use ground fishmeal\u2014dried fish parts from fisheries or wild catch\u2014as the protein source.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible to find microplastics in commercial fish food, she said, because the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wild+fish\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wild fish<\/a> that end up in fishmeal consume some of the microplastics that litter the waters they live in. But after Deng actually spotted tiny plastic beads in pre-ground fishmeal, it prompted a question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wondered, \u201d If the fish eat the microplastics, could the particles accumulate inside their bodies?\u2019\u201d said Deng, professor of freshwater sciences who researches the role of diet in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fish+farming\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fish farming<\/a>, or aquaculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Dong-Fang Deng and her students make feed for the fish they raise at UWM\u2019s School of Freshwater Sciences, they often use ground fishmeal\u2014dried fish parts from fisheries or wild catch\u2014as the protein source. It\u2019s possible to find microplastics in commercial fish food, she said, because the wild fish that end up in fishmeal consume [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}