Assessing and monitoring local and long-range-transported hydrocarbons as potential stressors to fish stocks

The Distribution of the MusselMytilusSpecies Along the Norwegian Coast

“…We have used data from Skadsheim, 2004;Skadsheim et al, 2009. Determination of significant whole organism effects on fitness is more uncertain.…”

The role of passive sampling in monitoring the environmental impacts of produced water discharges from the Norwegian oil and gas industry

“…Detection limits for less hydrophobic chemicals that are for example quantified using the POCIS are generally higher (Morin et al, 2012). This would yield a greater amount of improved input data for predictive models (Bakke et al, 2013), which would benefit correlations between observed ecotoxicological effects and chemical concentrations (Grung et al, 2009;Skadsheim et al, 2009). DREAM is based on the assumption of a several 1000 fold dilution of recipient concentrations, but confirming this by applying passive sampling to capture extremely low (diluted) concentrations would allow for more accurate predictions (Carlsson et al, 2014).…”

“…Adopting these principles and applying them to PW samples in order to quantify the ecotoxicological impacts that actually arise following exposure, will provide a huge step forward in obtaining a greater understanding of the effects of PW releases on the marine environment. The scientific literature contains a few examples in which the ecotoxicological effects of PAHs and APs in PW on different organisms have been investigated (Beyer et al, 2012;Skadsheim et al, 2009;Brooks et al, 2011;Rastall et al, 2006;Meier et al, 2007;Sundt and Bjorkblom, 2011). Mussels were exposed to 0%, 0.01%, 0.1%, 0.5% and 1% dilutions of PW samples and significant sublethal responses in acyl-CoA oxidase activity, neutral lipid accumulation, catalase activity, micronuclei formation, lysosomal membrane stability in digestive cells and haemocytes, cell-type composition in digestive gland epithelium, and the integrity of the digestive gland tissue were observed (Brooks et al, 2011).…”

Environmental Risk Management of E&P Operations in the Barents Sea: Environmental Indicators and Thresholds Levels

“…10 Arctic rockling 11 [5,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] Table 5 indicate that fish from the areas of investigation are not affected by oil industry related contaminants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). These methods are described in detail in the BIOSEA JIP Handbook of biomarker methods (8).…”