Contamination by Heavy Metals (Cd, Zn, Cu, and Hg) of Eight Fish Species in the Gironde Estuary (France)

• Main Authors: Durrieu, G., Maury Brachet, R., Girardin, Michel, Rochard, Eric, Boudou, A.
• Other Authors: Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie et Ecotoxicologie des Systèmes Aquatiques (LEESA), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut Français du Pétrole-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ecosystèmes estuariens et poissons migrateurs amphihalins (UR EPBX), Centre national du machinisme agricole, du génie rural, des eaux et forêts (CEMAGREF)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2005
• Subjects: GIRONDE ESTUAIRE; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Argentina; Mersey; Anguilla anguilla; European eel
• Online Access: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02587049

International audience The Gironde estuary, one of the largest in Europe, is considered as a reference ecological system, with all the western European diadromous fish species present. The national biomonitoring program on the coastal marine environment has revealed since 1979 severe metal pollution...