Integrated chemical and biological assessment of contaminant impacts in selected European coastal and offshore marine areas

This paper reports a full assessment of results from ICON, an international workshop on marine integrated contaminant monitoring, encompassing different matrices (sediment, fish, mussels, gastropods), areas (Iceland, North Sea, Baltic, Wadden Sea, Seine estuary and the western Mediterranean) and end...

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Published in:Marine Environmental Research
Main Authors: Hylland, Ketil, Robinson, Craig David, Burgeot, Thierry, Martínez-Gómez, Concepción, Lang, Thomas, Svavarsson, Jörundur, Thain, J.E., Vethaak, André Dirk, Gubbins, M.J.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Centro Oceanográfico de Murcia
Biomonitoring
Medio Marino
MSFD
Contaminants
Biological Effects
Assessment
Iceland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10508/11580
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/320988
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2016.05.014
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Summary:This paper reports a full assessment of results from ICON, an international workshop on marine integrated contaminant monitoring, encompassing different matrices (sediment, fish, mussels, gastropods), areas (Iceland, North Sea, Baltic, Wadden Sea, Seine estuary and the western Mediterranean) and endpoints (chemical analyses, biological effects). ICON has demonstrated the use of a framework for integrated contaminant assessment on European coastal and offshore areas. The assessment showed that chemical contamination did not always correspond with biological effects, indicating that both are required. The framework can be used to develop assessments for EU directives. If a 95% target were to be used as a regional indicator of MSFD GES, Iceland and offshore North Sea would achieve the target using the ICON dataset, but inshore North Sea, Baltic and Spanish Mediterranean regions would fail. SI

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