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Title: Metal concentrations in Maryland`s shellfish: 1970s--1990s

Abstract

Maryland has been monitoring arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury and zinc in bivalve shellfish from state waters since the 1960s. The primary bivalve species monitored in Maryland waters are the oyster, Crassostrea virginica and the softshell clam, Mya arenaria. These data have been evaluated for temporal trends. In order to insure that temporal evaluations be based upon data produced using comparable analytical methods, the time period evaluated is not the same for all analytes. For example, while most evaluations are for the period 1974 through 1994, arsenic data were evaluated for the period 1980 through 1994. Data for oyster tissue indicate declines in levels of mercury, cadmium, arsenic, copper and zinc on the order of 70--90%. The major portion of these reductions occurred prior to 1985. These declines are evident from data collected from Maryland`s lower eastern shore, a relatively remote area, as well as from waters closer to larger population centers. Past detection levels for lead and chromium were insufficiently low to detect temporal changes.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Maryland Dept. of the Environment, Baltimore, MD (United States)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
390162
Report Number(s):
CONF-9511137-
ISBN 1-880611-03-1; TRN: IM9646%%447
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 2. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) world conference, Vancouver (Canada), 5-9 Nov 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Second SETAC world congress (16. annual meeting): Abstract book. Global environmental protection: Science, politics, and common sense; PB: 378 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, APPLIED STUDIES; MARYLAND; WATER POLLUTION; SURFACE WATERS; BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS; ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; MERCURY; ZINC; OYSTERS; SENSITIVITY; CLAMS; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION

Citation Formats

Murphy, D L. Metal concentrations in Maryland`s shellfish: 1970s--1990s. United States: N. p., 1995. Web.
Murphy, D L. Metal concentrations in Maryland`s shellfish: 1970s--1990s. United States.
Murphy, D L. 1995. "Metal concentrations in Maryland`s shellfish: 1970s--1990s". United States.
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abstractNote = {Maryland has been monitoring arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury and zinc in bivalve shellfish from state waters since the 1960s. The primary bivalve species monitored in Maryland waters are the oyster, Crassostrea virginica and the softshell clam, Mya arenaria. These data have been evaluated for temporal trends. In order to insure that temporal evaluations be based upon data produced using comparable analytical methods, the time period evaluated is not the same for all analytes. For example, while most evaluations are for the period 1974 through 1994, arsenic data were evaluated for the period 1980 through 1994. Data for oyster tissue indicate declines in levels of mercury, cadmium, arsenic, copper and zinc on the order of 70--90%. The major portion of these reductions occurred prior to 1985. These declines are evident from data collected from Maryland`s lower eastern shore, a relatively remote area, as well as from waters closer to larger population centers. Past detection levels for lead and chromium were insufficiently low to detect temporal changes.},
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