some of which died and were examined for ingested marine debris.
This provided an opportunity to compare long-term changes in
the amounts and types of ingested plastic in stranded post-hatchling
turtles in the same region (cf. Hughes, 1970, 1974a). We predicted
that, like many seabirds, the importance of plastic pellets among
ingested debris in the turtle post-hatchlings would have decreased
compared to the 1960s and 1970s, reflecting a decrease in the numbers
of pellets at sea, at least compared to other plastic debris types