Tributyltin contamination around an oil terminal in Sullom Voe (Shetland)

Bailey, S.K.; Davies, Ian

doi:10.1016/0269-7491(88)90149-2

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“…2), presumably due to dilution effects by the open seas. Similar localised impact of TBT from centres of boating or manculture activity has been reported in several studies, such as in the Scottish sea lochs (Davies et al 1987), Sullom Voe (Bailey & Davies 1988), Porirua Inlet and Wellington Harbour, New Zealand (Smith & McVeagh 1991), Port Philip Bay, Australia (Foale 1993) and Indonesia (Evans et al 1995, Pandey & Evans 1996. In the present study, however, butyltin levels were still observed to be relatively high 5 km to the north of the Tel Aviv marina (ca 200 ng g-' dry tissue), and even detected at the reference sites at Akhziv and HaBonim, where they were sufficiently high to cause imposex in the whelks.…”

Section: Tbt Contaminationsupporting

confidence: 82%

Unregulated use of TBT-based antifouling paints in Israel (eastern Mediterranean):high contamination and imposex levels in two species of marine gastropods

Rilov¹,

Gasith²,

Evans³

et al. 2000

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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Section: Tbt Contaminationsupporting

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Unregulated use of TBT-based antifouling paints in Israel (eastern Mediterranean):high contamination and imposex levels in two species of marine gastropods

Rilov¹,

Gasith²,

Evans³

et al. 2000

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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“…1 & 2). Similar spatial imposex gradients were described by Bailey & Davies (1988) in Shetland, Gibbs et al (1987) in Cornwall, and Rilov et al (2000) in Israel. Since the use of TBT in marine antifouling paints is supposed to be prohibited soon (see Champ 2000 for a review on regulatory strategies), it is hoped that environmental conditions in this area will improve further, that a re-colonisation by N. lapillus populations of the northern part of the Bay of Brest will occur, that female sterility will disappear in the vicinity of Brest, and that imposex-free populations will again appear in NW Brittany.…”

Section: Imposex In Nw Brittanysupporting

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Imposex in Nucella lapillus: a ten year survey in NW Brittany

Huet¹,

Paulet²,

Clavier³

2004

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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Tributyltin (TBT) pollution has been assessed in NW Brittany since 1992 using the bioindicator imposex in Nucella lapillus. The Bay of Brest is highly polluted by TBT and the outgoing water mass has contaminated the adjacent NW coasts. However environmental conditions have been improving in NW Brittany. The decrease in TBT pollution is most likely due to the reformulated antifouling paints (with slower leaching rates or TBT-free) that are used for civil and military careening activities in the Bay of Brest. An increase in imposex levels in 1998 could have been due to the launching of the aircraft carrier 'Charles de Gaulle'. It remains unknown when imposex levels reached their maximum because of the lack of annual surveys in 1996, 1997 and 1999. This underscores the need for annual surveys when using imposex as a monitoring tool.

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“…Furthermore, it allows the interspecific comparison of For all imposex-affected prosobranchs the spatial distribution of imposex in relation to boating activity suggests that these species have potentials as bioindicators of TBT contamination. The imposex phenomenon has been successfully used in TBT biomonitoring studies in Scotland [11][12][13], England [14,15], Ireland [4,16], France [3] and outside Europe, e.g. in the United States [17,18], Canada [19], southeast Asia [20], New Zealand [21,22] and Australia [23,24].…”

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Tributyltin biomonitoring using prosobranchs as sentinel organisms

Oehlmann

Markert

Stroben

et al. 1996

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

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Tributyltin (TBT) compounds, some of the most toxic xenobiotics, produce a variety of pathological reactions in animals. A reliable biomonitoring method to assess the degree of environmental TBT pollution has been described based on investigations of virilization phenomena in prosobranch snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Examples are the imposex phenomenon in marine and freshwater species, the intersex reaction in littorinids and the reduction of female sexual glands and offspring numbers in further species resulting mainly in a sterilization of females. The degree of imposex or intersex in populations is determined by different biomonitoring indices which allow to assess the TBT pollution of the environment at low costs with high precision. The effectiveness of TBT legislations is analysed by extensive surveys in France and Ireland indicating that there is still a continuing threat to sensitive marine organisms. TBT disturbs the biosynthesis of steroid hormones on the level of estrogen biosynthesis. The observed virilization phenomena seem due to an inhibition of the cytochrome P-450 dependent aromatase by this organotin compound.

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Tributyltin contamination around an oil terminal in Sullom Voe (Shetland)

Cited by 34 publications

References 10 publications

Unregulated use of TBT-based antifouling paints in Israel (eastern Mediterranean):high contamination and imposex levels in two species of marine gastropods

Unregulated use of TBT-based antifouling paints in Israel (eastern Mediterranean):high contamination and imposex levels in two species of marine gastropods

Imposex in Nucella lapillus: a ten year survey in NW Brittany

Tributyltin biomonitoring using prosobranchs as sentinel organisms

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