PMID- 21451877
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110808
LR  - 20161125
IS  - 1464-0333 (Electronic)
IS  - 1464-0325 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 5
DP  - 2011 May
TI  - An assessment of persistent organic pollutants in Scottish coastal and offshore 
      marine environments.
PG  - 1288-307
LID - 10.1039/c1em10100e [doi]
AB  - 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 microg 
      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 microg kg(-1) lipid weight 
      in all sea areas except the Clyde where concentrations ranged between 8.9 and 
      2202 microg 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.
FAU - Webster, Lynda
AU  - Webster L
AD  - Marine Scotland, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen AB11 9DB, UK. websterl@marlab.ac.uk
FAU - Russell, Marie
AU  - Russell M
FAU - Walsham, Pam
AU  - Walsham P
FAU - Phillips, Lesley A
AU  - Phillips LA
FAU - Hussy, Ines
AU  - Hussy I
FAU - Packer, Gill
AU  - Packer G
FAU - Dalgarno, Eric J
AU  - Dalgarno EJ
FAU - Moffat, Colin F
AU  - Moffat CF
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20110331
PL  - England
TA  - J Environ Monit
JT  - Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM
JID - 100968688
RN  - 0 (Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers)
RN  - 0 (Organic Chemicals)
RN  - 0 (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Fishes/metabolism
MH  - Geologic Sediments/chemistry
MH  - Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers/analysis/metabolism
MH  - Liver/metabolism
MH  - Organic Chemicals/*analysis/metabolism
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis/metabolism
MH  - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/analysis/metabolism
MH  - Scotland
MH  - Seawater/chemistry
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis/metabolism
MH  - Water Pollution, Chemical/statistics & numerical data
EDAT- 2011/04/01 06:00
MHDA- 2011/08/09 06:00
CRDT- 2011/04/01 06:00
PHST- 2011/04/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/04/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/08/09 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1039/c1em10100e [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Environ Monit. 2011 May;13(5):1288-307. doi: 10.1039/c1em10100e. Epub 2011 Mar 
      31.