Perceptions of plastic pollution among inland fishery stakeholders in a subtropical reservoir

• Florence M. Murungweni ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Florence M. Murungweni, Thendo Mutshekwa

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa

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• Manamela S. Mokata,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa

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• Lubabalo Mofu,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa

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• Jeffrey Lebepe,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Ga-Rankuwa, Pretoria, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9802-2846

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• Samuel N. Motitsoe,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Thendo Mutshekwa

  Contributed equally to this work with: Florence M. Murungweni, Thendo Mutshekwa

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thendomutshekwa@gmail.com

  Affiliations School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Freshwater Invertebrates, Albany Museum, Makhanda, South Africa, Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University, Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0549-3265

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