Field and laboratory studies of chemical contamination and environmentally related diseases in fish and molluscs of New England
The concentration of PCBs, PAHs, insecticides and metals in some aquatic ecosystems have reached high levels placing identified populations at risk to chemical, physical, and biological agents in estuarine and open coastal areas of the United States. In the last three decades scientific studies bolstered evidence for a causal relationship between spontaneous and chemically induced pathological effects on marine organisms and exposure to industrial and agricultural pollutants discharged into aquatic ecosystems. In subsequent years research, both in the laboratory and at polluted estuarine or marine sites, has elucidated causal relationships between processes of pathogenesis of lesions (including carcinogenesis) and exposure to specific toxic agents. Today, research investigating mechanisms of chemical- and pollutant-induced lesions is demonstrating that chemicals can exert toxic, mutagenic, carcinogenic, and immunogenic effects on marine organisms.
- Research Organization:
- Environmental Protection Agency, Newport, OR (United States). Environmental Research Lab.
- OSTI ID:
- 6310572
- Report Number(s):
- PB-93-199438/XAB; EPA-600/A-93/120
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: See also PB--90-245531
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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