PANGAEA_997481 Statistical mean values of microplastic abundance, FTIR peak assignments and microplastic contamination/risk indexes of Labeo rohita and Wallago attu from Sulemanki and Panjnad Barrages, Punjab, Pakistan Arshad, Muhammad; Qazi, Adnan Ahmad; Naz, Huma; Wadood, Fazal Statistical mean values of microplastic abundance, FTIR peak assignments and microplastic contamination/risk indexes of Labeo rohita and Wallago attu from Sulemanki and Panjnad Barrages, Punjab, Pakistan 2026-09-22 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.997481 Investigator Muhammad Arshad arshadzoologybio@gmail.com Earth Science Binary Object File content geoscientificInformation Panjnad Barrage PAN-LR-GIT PAN-LR-MUS PAN-WA-GIT PAN-WA-MUS Sulemanki Barrage SUL-LR-GIT SUL-LR-MUS SUL-WA-GIT SUL-WA-MUS 2025-02-01 2026-04-30 Complete 29.35 30.3775 71.033333 73.866667 access rights needed CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (License comes into effect after moratorium ends) English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 6 data points text/tab-separated-values Arshad, Muhammad (2026): Synergistic Effects of Microplastics and Heavy Metals in the Aquatic Environment: A Risk-Based Approach [thesis]. Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bahawalpur, Pakistan Hossain, Nayem; Das, Satu; Rahman Khan, Mohammad Mizanur; Sarker, Subrata; Jeong, Jae-Ho (2025): Investigation of Microplastic Accumulation in Two Freshwater Fish Species (Labeo rohita and Wallago attu) from Tanguar Haor, Bangladesh. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 115(5), 52, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-025-04122-w Lithner, Delilah; Larsson, Åke; Dave, Göran (2011): Environmental and health hazard ranking and assessment of plastic polymers based on chemical composition. Science of the Total Environment, 409(18), 3309-3324, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.04.038 Raheel, Syed Muhammad Moeen Uddin; Qazi, Adnan Ahmad; Latif, Muhammad; Naz, Huma; Waqas, Yasir; Lackner, Maximilian (2025): Unveiling the microplastics menace in freshwater fishes: Evidence from the Panjnad Barrage, South Punjab, Pakistan. Fishes, 10(5), 198, https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10050198

This dataset reports microplastic (MP) abundance in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) and muscle tissue of two freshwater fish species, Labeo rohita and Wallago attu, collected from two barrages on the Sutlej-Chenab river system in Punjab, Pakistan — Sulemanki Barrage and Panjnad Barrage. Tissue weight, MP count, and MP abundance per gram of tissue are reported as group-level summary statistics (mean ± standard error, SE) for each site×species×tissue combination, as presented in the source thesis; the number of individual fish underlying each summary value is not stated in the source and is not inferred here. Polymer identity of extracted particles (polyethylene, PET, polypropylene, and PVC) was supported by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) on representative particles, using a spectral library match threshold of ≥0.70; a summary of the FTIR peak assignments is included as a supporting subtable, but no raw FTIR spectra are part of this dataset. Individual-fish-level MP records are not available for deposition; no reconstruction, pooling assumption, or imputation has been applied to derive them. A supplementary derived subtable of screening-level microplastic contamination/risk index classifications (MPCF, MPPLI, Hi, MPRI) is included; these are literature-coefficient-dependent screening indicators, not validated toxicity measures. This dataset is derived from the PhD thesis of Muhammad Arshad, Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bahawalpur, Pakistan (2026). ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.997481"!

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-025-04122-w Investigation of Microplastic Accumulation in Two Freshwater Fish Species (Labeo rohita and Wallago attu) from Tanguar Haor, Bangladesh https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.04.038 Environmental and health hazard ranking and assessment of plastic polymers based on chemical composition https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10050198 Unveiling the microplastics menace in freshwater fishes: Evidence from the Panjnad Barrage, South Punjab, Pakistan DIF 9.4 2026-09-22 2026-09-25