Lyle UR Coming to the end...of the semester

Well were almost to the end of this semester. The time has flown by so fast that I wish the semester was longer, at least for this class. I've completed dissecting all four sites that I sampled from and with the results that I got the average micro fibers per gram is 3.25.The average size oyster that I sampled was 2.667 grams. A conclusion that I came to after looking at where the oysters came from is that the closer to Ponce Inlet that the oysters came from the higher the micro fiber count is. I don't know if that is a direct correlation but that's what the research shows.

http://kingofwallpapers.com/oyster.html

Garth from section 201 asks "have you seen a correlation between oyster maturity and plastics eaten. Do you believe Micro-plastics are killing the oysters before they mature?" Garth that is a great question, I haven't seen that correlation but what I did find was the closer to the inlet I sampled the oyster, the higher the micro plastic count I got. I believe that there isn't enough micro plastic in the oysters to kill them but it may be causing them to not filter the water as efficient as they could if there were no micro plastics in them.
Casie from section 201 also had some questions, " When oysters ingest micro plastics, is it safe to say that when humans consume the oysters we are indeed consuming micro plastics? Out of all oysters you have gathered how many had micro plastics in them?" Casie, unfortunately, yes we as humans who eat oysters are ingesting the micro plastics. In all of the oysters that I sampled, I found micro plastics in every one of them. Although the amount of micro plastics varied between each oyster.