First evidence of plastic pollution in the African Great Lakes: Recovery from Lake Victoria Nile perch and Nile tilapia

Fares John Biginagwa; Mayoma  Bahati Sosthenes; Yvonne Shashoua; Kristian  Syberg; Farhan R.  Khan

doi:10.1016/j.jglr.2015.10.012

First evidence of plastic pollution in the African Great Lakes: Recovery from Lake Victoria Nile perch and Nile tilapia

Fares John Biginagwa
, Mayoma Bahati Sosthenes
, Yvonne Shashoua
, Kristian Syberg
, Farhan R. Khan

Environmental Archaeology and Materials Science

University of Sokoine
Mtwara District council
Roskilde Universitet

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Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Great Lakes Research
Volume	42
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	146-149
Number of pages	4
ISSN	0380-1330
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2015.10.012
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2015

Keywords

plastic ingestion, Lake Victoria, ATR-FTIR analysis

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