Table 2.

A compilation of reports of paint particle ingestion by marine animals. Asterisks denote reports of particles in the gills as well as the digestive tract; ns = not stated.

Animal	Location	Size, mm	Paint type	Reference
Laysan albatross, Diomedea immutabilis	Midway Atoll, North Pacific	ns	building paint	Sileo and Fefer (1987)
Cape petrel, Daption capense	Equatorial Pacific	ns	ns	Laist (1997)
Green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas	Central Pacific	ns	ns	Russell et al. (2011)
Various pelagic and benthic fish	Portuguese coast	< 4.8	alkyd	Neves et al. (2015)
Amberstrip scad, Decapterus muroadsi	Southern Pacific subtropical gyre	< 5	alkyd/epoxy	Ory et al. (2018)
Green sea turtles, Chelonia mydas	Great Barrier Reef	1-2.5	acrylic	Caron et al. (2018)
Various pelagic and benthic fish	Southern Pacific subtropical gyre	< 5	acrylic	Markic et al. (2018)
Mauve stinger, Pelagia noctiluca	Tyrrhenian Sea	3	zinc-rich	Macali et al. (2018)
Atlantic bigeye, Priacanthus arenatus	Brazilian coast	< 10	ns	Cardoza et al. (2018)
Various cetaceans	Irish coast	ns	ns	Lusher et al. (2018)
Pelagic fish*	Musa estuary and Persian Gulf	< 0.3	antifouling	Abbasi et al. (2018)
Ragworm, Hediste diversicolor	Plymouth Sound, SW England	< 2.6	antifouling	Muller-Karanassos et al. (2019)
Atlantic chub mackerel, Scomber colias	Canary Island coast	< 5	ns	Herrera et al. (2019)
Various estuarine snooks	Goiana estuary, Brazil	< 5	ns	Ferreira et al. (2019)
Guri catfish, Genidens geniden	Laguna estuarine system, Brazil	< 5	ns	Dantas et al. (2019)
Benthic jellyfish, Cassiopea xamachana	Florida estuaries	ns	ns	Iliff et al. (2020)
Mangrove crabs*	Hong Kong	> 0.01	ns	Not et al. (2020)
Harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena	German coast	> 0.1	acrylic/alkyd	Philipp et al. (2021)