Integrated chemical and biological assessment of contaminant impacts in selected European coastal and offshore marine areas

This paper reports a full assessment of results from ICON, an international workshop on marine integrated contaminant monitoring, encompassing different matrices (sediment, fish, mussels, gastropods), areas (Iceland, North Sea, Baltic, Wadden Sea, Seine estuary and the western Mediterranean) and end...

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Autores: Hylland, Ketil, Robinson, Craig David, Burgeot, Thierry, Martínez-Gómez, Concepción, Lang, Thomas, Svavarsson, Jörundur, Thain, J.E., Vethaak, André Dirk, Gubbins, M.J.
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/320988
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/320988
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Medio Marino
Biomonitoring
Centro Oceanográfico de Murcia
MSFD
Contaminants
Biological Effects
Assessment
Descrição
Resumo:This paper reports a full assessment of results from ICON, an international workshop on marine integrated contaminant monitoring, encompassing different matrices (sediment, fish, mussels, gastropods), areas (Iceland, North Sea, Baltic, Wadden Sea, Seine estuary and the western Mediterranean) and endpoints (chemical analyses, biological effects). ICON has demonstrated the use of a framework for integrated contaminant assessment on European coastal and offshore areas. The assessment showed that chemical contamination did not always correspond with biological effects, indicating that both are required. The framework can be used to develop assessments for EU directives. If a 95% target were to be used as a regional indicator of MSFD GES, Iceland and offshore North Sea would achieve the target using the ICON dataset, but inshore North Sea, Baltic and Spanish Mediterranean regions would fail.