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Fish ate my grant story
Warwick Hughes has a lovely story of belief shattered by actually looking, although I suppose the qudos goes to actually owning up.
The article he cites includes
An international team of experts has found evidence there is 100 times less plastic on ocean surfaces than expected.
and
The plastic particles that are missing might be ingested by fish. That one possibility is… the most likely one.”
To which a commenter at Hugh’s ripostes
I ran a fish factory for 8 years, processing thousands of tonnes of fish. I found 1 plastic bag in a fish stomach, a cod caught half way between Australia and Indonesia in over 100 metres deep water.
http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=3107
The story links through to a Radio Australia interview
Presenter: Brian Abbott
Speaker: Professor Carlos Duarte, University of Western Australia Oceans Institute, described as “University of Western Australia oceanographer”
Duarte seems to be but the department makes no sense
Winthrop Professor
School of Plant Biology
But also gives a full name of “Prof Carlos Duarte Quesada”
http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/carlos.duarte
No paper has turned up. Maybe it is the wrong person.
Post by Tim
Source: http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/fish-ate-my-grant-story/
