Effects of Pollution on Marine Organisms

Mearns, Alan J.; Reish, Donald J.; Oshida, Philip S.; Buchman, Michael; Ginn, Thomas C.; Donnelly, Robert

doi:10.2175/106143007x218683

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“…Birch and Taylor 1999;Birch et al 2005;Fletcher et al 2004;Irvine and Birch 1998;Peters 2009;Rand and Schuler 2009;Sanger et al 1999;US EPA 1983). The toxicity of this NPS chemical assemblage to the aquatic ecosystem has also been well established (Harmon 2009;Mearns et al 2009). Moreover, despite the phase-out of leaded fuel at the start of the century, road-derived pollutants continue to pose a hazard to human and ecological health, particularly over extended periods of accumulation (Fang et al 2009;Hjortenkrans et al 2006;Madrid et al 2007;Preciado et al 2007).…”

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Spatial Distribution of Bulk Atmospheric Deposition of Heavy Metals in Metropolitan Sydney, Australia

Davis

Birch

2010

Water Air Soil Pollut

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The detailed spatial distribution of atmospheric deposition flux of pollutants in metropolitan Sydney, Australia (ca. 480 km 2 ) is investigated through the direct simultaneous sampling of bulk deposition adjacent to roads with various traffic volumes and at background sites over a period of 1 year. Based on the field results and detailed land-use analyses, atmospheric deposition rates of copper, lead and zinc are calculated for the metropolitan region, and the contributions to stormwater pollutant loads are evaluated. Total particulates and heavy metals in bulk atmospheric deposition are found to be temporally consistent, and to exhibit strong correlations with road proximity and traffic volume. The material captured adjacent to major roads has a distinct average composition of 862 mg/kg copper, 364 mg/kg lead and 4,617 mg/kg zinc. Modelling accounting for road proximity, traffic volume and landuse affords annualised stormwater-entrainable depositional fluxes of 6.5, 4.1, 47.2 and 10,800 kg/km 2 /year for copper, lead and zinc.

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Spatial Distribution of Bulk Atmospheric Deposition of Heavy Metals in Metropolitan Sydney, Australia

Davis

Birch

2010

Water Air Soil Pollut

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“…Shrimp growth problems may be conjectured to originate from several factors, among which exposure to pollutants may be counted (Galindo et al 1996a(Galindo et al , b, 2002Mearns et al 1910;Páez-Osuna and Ruiz-Fernández 1995;Wu and Chen 2004;García-de la Parra et al 2006). Pollution in the bay is mainly due to management of the watershed upstream.…”

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Measurement of pollution levels of organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticides in water, soil, sediment, and shrimp to identify possible impacts on shrimp production at Jiquilisco Bay

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Sempere

Chávez

et al. 2012

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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This study aims to identify levels of several organochlorine and organophosphorus compounds in shrimp-raising areas of coastal El Salvador, to assess potential impacts on shrimp growth and survival that hamper the sustainability of aquaculture in the region. The paper reports the current levels of γ-HCH, 4,4'-DDT, 4,4'-DDE, 4,4'-DDD, endrin, dieldrin, heptachlor, parathion, methyl parathion, and etoprophos in soils (depth 20 cm), sediments (depth 5 cm), shrimp (Penaeus sp.), and water of three rearing ponds and also in the sediment (depth 5 cm) and water surrounding those ponds in Jiquilisco Bay. Sampling was carried out during the dry (January-March) and rainy (June-August) seasons of 2008. The presence of pesticides in the samples of water, shrimp, and sediment at shrimp ponds was not detected in either season; however, in soil samples (depth 20 cm) taken from these ponds, heptachlor, endrin, dieldrin, 4,4'-DDD, and 4,4'-DDT were identified at concentrations below the method limit of quantification (LOQ), and 4,4'-DDE was found in a concentration falling in the range from 3.85 to 19.61 ng/g. In samples of water taken at the bay water intakes to the rearing ponds, we observed dieldrin concentrations in the range between 0.085 ng/mL and 0.182 ng/mL during the dry season. In the samples of sediments taken in the surrounding areas of shrimp ponds, we found-for both seasons-that in 60 % of the samples, 4,4'-DDE was present in concentrations ranging from 3.75 ng/g to 30.97 ng/g. Additionally, in the rainy season, we observed heptachlor in sediment at concentrations below the method quantification limit. It was concluded that organochlorine compounds from pesticides are still present in Jiquilisco Bay, trapped in deep sediment, even though they have been banned since the 1980s. These were not detected in shrimp tissue, surface water, and shallow sediment in rearing ponds, and hence, we do not believe their presence has any major impact on shrimp production in sampled areas.

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“…Among these, heavy metals are being considered as one of the most significant pollutants in both fresh-water and marine sediments (Bryan and Langston, 1992;Roberts, 2012;Wang et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2014). Once introduced to the marine environments they can adversely affect ecosystems through benthic and/or bottom feeding organisms, or they can re-partition to the water column and affect pelagic organisms (Mearns et al, 2009).…”

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Historical trends (1998–2012) of nickel (Ni), copper (Cu) and chromium (Cr) concentrations in marine sediments at four locations in the Northern Adriatic Sea

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Furlan²,

Cenov³

2015

Marine Pollution Bulletin

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Effects of Pollution on Marine Organisms

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Spatial Distribution of Bulk Atmospheric Deposition of Heavy Metals in Metropolitan Sydney, Australia

Spatial Distribution of Bulk Atmospheric Deposition of Heavy Metals in Metropolitan Sydney, Australia

Measurement of pollution levels of organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticides in water, soil, sediment, and shrimp to identify possible impacts on shrimp production at Jiquilisco Bay

Historical trends (1998–2012) of nickel (Ni), copper (Cu) and chromium (Cr) concentrations in marine sediments at four locations in the Northern Adriatic Sea

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