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Plastic particles collected in surface waters over a broad area of the north-west Atlantic Ocean. The background is the 0.947-millimeter nylon mesh used in the neuston collecting net. See page 491. [Harold L. Pratt, National Marine Fisheries Service, Narragansett Laboratory, Narragansett, Rhode Island]


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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)