Steve Cofone, UR - Will be casting a line soon!

               Well were off to a good start, I have uncovered some great information and past research that has been done, Anthropogenic debris in seafood , this let me know that KOH 10% is the best compromise for extraction and identification of microplastics.
I have also been directed to this website , this is a free site of scientific reports, a great free source of information. I am finding that a lot of these papers I am trying to view I will have to pay for. But as I keep searching I am finding ways around that.
                    Another excellent report I found is Microplastics in seafood , which outlines some protocols for the research I am doing. I found this to be an excellent source and a great form of guidance for me.

Fishing gear is primed and ready to go!

I'm still looking for more research and scientific pubs, but so far this is a great start.

The next thing I am working on is getting my gear together and ready as well as a game plan and a GIS (geographical information systems) map of the spots I will be fishing at. I will be posting that as soon as it is complete.
 As Dr Woodall has reminded me, I need to remove any bias from my selection, so in order to do that I am going to put 8 spots that I have fished and been successful in a hat, I will randomly select 4 spots from the 8 and fish those spots in order to get catch to analyze.