Effect of organotin compounds (TBT) used in antifouling paints on cultured marine molluscs - a literature study
Organotin salts, used as antifouling substances have a deleterious effect on the environment particularly on molluscs and especially on the Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas. A synthesis of the effects of tributyltin (TBT) on cultured molluscs reveals the following effects: 1) acute and chronic toxi...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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European Aquaculture Society, Bredene, Belgium
1989
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| Online Access: | https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/3016/2603.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/3016/ |
| Summary: | Organotin salts, used as antifouling substances have a deleterious effect on the environment particularly on molluscs and especially on the Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas. A synthesis of the effects of tributyltin (TBT) on cultured molluscs reveals the following effects: 1) acute and chronic toxicity to the adults; 2) accumulation in the flesh 01 the adults; 3) perturbation 01 reproduction particularly fertility, mortality 01 offspring and decrease in larval growth rate; 4) decrease in the growth rate 01 juveniles and thickening 01 the shell; and 5) modification 01 the physiology al sublethal levels. |
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