Occurrence of organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in deep-sea fishes from the Sulu Sea

Ramu, Karri; Kajiwara, Natsuko; Mochizuki, Hiroko; Miyasaka, Hitoshi; Asante, Kwadwo Ansong; Takahashi, Shin; Ota, S.; Yeh, Hsin‐Ming; Nishida, Shuhei; Tanabe, Shinsuke

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2006.09.013

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“…Concentrations of all contaminants were very low with PBDE concentrations (sum of 14 congeners) ranging from 0.85 to 2.1 mg kg À1 lipid weight. 58 PBDEs have also been reported in the liver of two deep sea fish species from the Mediterranean, and concentrations were similar to the concentrations found in this study in Rockall/Bailey/Hebrides. 59 Concentrations for the sum of 8 congeners (BDE28, 49, 47, 66, 100, 99, 154, 153) ranged from 11.8-27.3 mg kg À1 lipid weight (n ¼ 6) in hollowsnout grenadier and from 3.2-7.0 mg kg À1 lipid weight (n ¼ 9) in roughsnout grenadier.…”

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“…57 Only two published studies on PBDEs in deep water fish could be found. 58,59 Ten different species of deep water fish (whole fish) from the Sulu Sea, western Pacific, collected at depths of up to 1015 m were analysed for organohalogen contaminants, including PBDEs. Concentrations of all contaminants were very low with PBDE concentrations (sum of 14 congeners) ranging from 0.85 to 2.1 mg kg À1 lipid weight.…”

Section: Overall Assessment Of Contaminants In Sedimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An assessment of persistent organic pollutants in Scottish coastal and offshore marine environments

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Concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were determined in sediment and biota (fish liver) from around Scotland. The concentrations were investigated using assessment criteria developed by OSPAR and ICES. Organic contaminant concentrations, PAHs, PCBs and PBDEs in sediment, and PCBs and PBDEs in fish liver, were significantly higher in the Clyde compared to all other sea areas. This is mainly due to historic industrial inputs. Highest PCB and PAH concentrations were found in the strata furthest up the Clyde estuary, with concentrations of POPs in these strata being at levels such that there is an unacceptable risk of chronic effects occurring in marine species. Furthermore, for PAHs in Clyde sediment there was a significant negative gradient going from north to south towards the open sea. PAH and PCB concentrations in sediment and biota in all other Scottish sea areas (except for PCBs in sediment from East Scotland) were unlikely to give rise to pollution effects, being below relevant assessment criteria. Although no assessment criteria are available for PBDEs, the concentrations observed in Scottish sediments were low with all congeners below the limit of detection (LoD; 0.03 µg kg(-1) dry weight) in 140 out of a total of 307 samples analysed. Where PBDEs were detected, the dominant congeners were BDE47 and BDE99. PBDEs were detected in fish livers, although concentrations were less than 150 µg kg(-1) lipid weight in all sea areas except the Clyde where concentrations ranged between 8.9 and 2202 µg kg(-1) lipid weight. Few trends were detected in contaminant concentrations in biota or sediment at any Scottish site with more than five years data. Downward trends were detected in PAHs in sediment from the Clyde, Irish Sea and Minches and Malin Sea and PCBs in fish liver from the Moray Firth. Rules were developed for the aggregation of the contaminant data across a sea area. An overall assessment for each sea area was then assigned, looking at the frequency of sites or strata within each sea area that were above or below the relevant assessment criteria. Overall the status of the various sea areas, with respect to the assessed POPs, can be considered to be acceptable in that they were below concentrations likely to result in chronic effects for all sea areas except the Clyde.

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An assessment of persistent organic pollutants in Scottish coastal and offshore marine environments

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“…1,4 This creates challenges to using marine sediments as indicators of deep-ocean contamination and may also imply recycling in deep-ocean food webs rather than burial. 5,6 Fish living at ocean depths have provided evidence of the vertical flux of PCBs and OCPs, 7 and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). 8 Measurements in benthic invertebrates provide another means of assessing transfer of contaminants to the deep ocean.…”

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Scavenging Amphipods: Sentinels for Penetration of Mercury and Persistent Organic Chemicals into Food Webs of the Deep Arctic Ocean

Bidleman

Stern

Tomy

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Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Archived specimens of the scavenging amphipod Eurythenes gryllus, collected from 2075 to 4250 m below the surface on five expeditions to the western and central Arctic Ocean between 1983 and 1998, were analyzed for total mercury (∑Hg), methyl mercury (MeHg), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other industrial or byproduct organochlorines (chlorobenzenes, pentachloroanisole, octachlorostyrene), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). Median ∑Hg concentrations ranged from 70 to 366 ng g(-1) wet weight (ww). MeHg concentrations (3.55 to 23.5 ng g(-1) ww) accounted for 1.7 to 20.1% (median 3.7%) of ∑Hg. ∑Hg and MeHg were positively and significantly correlated with ww (∑Hg r(2) = 0.18, p = 0.0004, n = 63; MeHg r(2) = 0.42, p = 0.0004, n = 25), but not significantly with δ(13)C nor δ(15)N. Median concentrations of total persistent organic pollutants (POPs) ranged from 9750 to 156,000 ng g(-1) lipid weight, with order of abundance: ∑TOX (chlorobornanes quantified as technical toxaphene) > ∑PCBs > ∑DDTs > ∑chlordanes > ∑mirex compounds > ∑BDEs ∼ ∑chlorobenzenes ∼ octachlorostyrene > α-hexachlorocyclohexane ∼ hexachlorobenzene ∼ pentachloroanisole. Enantioselective accumulation was found for the chiral OCPs o,p'-DDT, cis- and trans-chlordane, nonachlor MC6 and oxychlordane. Lipid-normalized POPs concentrations were elevated in amphipods with lipid percentages ≤10%, suggesting that utilization of lipids resulted in concentration of POPs in the remaining lipid pool. Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) analysis using log-transformed physiological variables and lipid-normalized organochlorine concentrations distinguished amphipods from the central vs western arctic stations. This distinction was also seen for PCB homologues, whereas profiles of other compound classes were more related to specific stations rather than central-west differences.

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“…The sum of these "indicators," which constituted over 85% of PCB total, was 985 ng g −1 lipid weight in Mediterranean slimehead and 485 ng g −1 lipid weight in blackfin sorcerer. A geographic comparison about concentrations of these seven iPCBs shows that the contamination of this marine area is higher than those encountered in water bodies classified as moderately polluted (de Brito et al 2002a;Ramu et al 2006), offering evidence of appreciable pollution. It is likely that environmental contamination affects surrounding biota.…”

Section: "Indicator" Pcb Congeners and "Dioxin-like" Pcbsmentioning

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Detection and quantitative analysis of organochlorine compounds (PCBs and DDTs) in deep sea fish liver from Mediterranean Sea

Storelli

Perrone

2010

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Occurrence of organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in deep-sea fishes from the Sulu Sea

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An assessment of persistent organic pollutants in Scottish coastal and offshore marine environments

An assessment of persistent organic pollutants in Scottish coastal and offshore marine environments

Scavenging Amphipods: Sentinels for Penetration of Mercury and Persistent Organic Chemicals into Food Webs of the Deep Arctic Ocean

Detection and quantitative analysis of organochlorine compounds (PCBs and DDTs) in deep sea fish liver from Mediterranean Sea

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