Long-term trends in metals, PCBs, and pesticides in mussels from San Francisco Bay
- California Dept. of Fish and Game, Long Beach, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco, CA (United States)
- San Francisco Estuary Inst., CA (United States)
Many contaminant programs have been established to study the geographical distributions and long-term trends of potential pollutants, but unfortunately, many have been short-lived because of economic cutbacks, providing limited information on long-term trends. The California State Mussel Watch program in conjunction with the San Francisco Estuary Institute (in the last 2 years) have provided continues funding for the past 15 years to mussel watch studies in San Francisco Bay. Long-term trends have been identified that describe declines in many organics and metals during the last 15 years. There are also some metals and organics that show no specific trends. The declines indicate that the banning or restriction of usage of some of these contaminants has resulted in substantial decreases of these substances in the environment.
- OSTI ID:
- 390163
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9511137-; ISBN 1-880611-03-1; TRN: IM9646%%448
- 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
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