Plastics outnumber baby fish 7-to-1 in some coastal nurseries
Calm ocean surface nurseries shelter thousands of baby fish. They also attract bits of plastic
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A net dragged through an ocean slick off Hawaii Island caught this scribbled filefish, about 50 days old and five centimeters long, and all sorts of plastics.
David Liittschwager