PMID- 28806556
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180814
LR  - 20180814
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 610-611
DP  - 2018 Jan 1
TI  - Persistent organic pollutants in fat of three species of Pacific pelagic longline 
      caught sea turtles: Accumulation in relation to ingested plastic marine debris.
PG  - 402-411
LID - S0048-9697(17)31959-9 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.242 [doi]
AB  - In addition to eating contaminated prey, sea turtles may be exposed to persistent 
      organic pollutants (POPs) from ingesting plastic debris that has absorbed these 
      chemicals. Given the limited knowledge about POPs in pelagic sea turtles and how 
      plastic ingestion influences POP exposure, our objectives were to: 1) provide 
      baseline contaminant levels of three species of pelagic Pacific sea turtles; and 
      2) assess trends of contaminant levels in relation to species, sex, length, body 
      condition and capture location. In addition, we hypothesized that if ingesting 
      plastic is a significant source of POP exposure, then the amount of ingested 
      plastic may be correlated to POP concentrations accumulated in fat. To address 
      our objectives we compared POP concentrations in fat samples to previously 
      described amounts of ingested plastic from the same turtles. Fat samples from 25 
      Pacific pelagic sea turtles [2 loggerhead (Caretta caretta), 6 green (Chelonia 
      mydas) and 17 olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) turtles] were analyzed for 81 
      polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), 20 organochlorine pesticides, and 35 brominated 
      flame-retardants. The olive ridley and loggerhead turtles had higher SigmaDDTs 
      (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and metabolites) than SigmaPCBs, at a ratio similar 
      to biota measured in the South China Sea and southern California. Green turtles 
      had a ratio close to 1:1. These pelagic turtles had lower POP levels than 
      previously reported in nearshore turtles. POP concentrations were unrelated to 
      the amounts of ingested plastic in olive ridleys, suggesting that their exposure 
      to POPs is mainly through prey. In green turtles, concentrations of SigmaPCBs were 
      positively correlated with the number of plastic pieces ingested, but these 
      findings were confounded by covariance with body condition index (BCI). Green 
      turtles with a higher BCI had eaten more plastic and also had higher POPs. Taken 
      together, our findings suggest that sea turtles accumulate most POPs through 
      their prey rather than marine debris.
CI  - Published by Elsevier B.V.
FAU - Clukey, Katharine E
AU  - Clukey KE
AD  - Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of 
      Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, United States.
FAU - Lepczyk, Christopher A
AU  - Lepczyk CA
AD  - Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of 
      Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, United States; Auburn University, School of 
      Forestry and Wildlife Science, Auburn, AL, United States.
FAU - Balazs, George H
AU  - Balazs GH
AD  - Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, 
      Honolulu, HI, United States.
FAU - Work, Thierry M
AU  - Work TM
AD  - U.S. Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center, Honolulu Field Station, 
      Honolulu, HI, United States.
FAU - Li, Qing X
AU  - Li QX
AD  - Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawai'i at 
      Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, United States.
FAU - Bachman, Melannie J
AU  - Bachman MJ
AD  - Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
      Charleston, SC, United States.
FAU - Lynch, Jennifer M
AU  - Lynch JM
AD  - Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
      Kaneohe, HI, United States. Electronic address: Jennifer.lynch@nist.gov.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20170812
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Flame Retardants)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Organic Chemicals)
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Waste Products)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adipose Tissue/*chemistry
MH  - Animals
MH  - California
MH  - China
MH  - Eating
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Flame Retardants/pharmacokinetics
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/pharmacokinetics
MH  - Organic Chemicals/*pharmacokinetics
MH  - Pacific Ocean
MH  - *Plastics
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/pharmacokinetics
MH  - *Turtles
MH  - Waste Products
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - DDT
OT  - Marine turtles
OT  - PCBs
OT  - POPs
OT  - Pelagic Pacific
OT  - Plastic pollution
EDAT- 2017/08/15 06:00
MHDA- 2018/08/15 06:00
CRDT- 2017/08/15 06:00
PHST- 2017/05/27 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/07/27 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/07/27 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/08/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/08/15 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/08/15 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(17)31959-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.242 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2018 Jan 1;610-611:402-411. doi: 
      10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.242. Epub 2017 Aug 12.