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In the ocean, plastic debris injures and kills fish, seabirds and marine mammals. Marine plastic pollution has impacted at least 267 species worldwide, including 86% of all sea turtle species, 44% of all seabird species and 43% of all marine mammal species. The impacts include fatalities as a result of ingestion, starvation, suffocation, infection, drowning, and entanglement.
Hence, the estimated mortality rates and the effects on the population dynamics of many affected species are probably underestimated [2]. Many marine species such as marine mammals, seabirds, marine turtles, and fish have been reported to ingest marine litter, especially plastics.