Monitoring environmental impacts of fish farms: Comparing reference conditions of sediment geochemistry and benthic foraminifera with the present

• Published in: Ecological Indicators
• Main Authors: Klootwijk, Anouk Tosca, Alve, Elisabeth, Hess, Silvia, Paul, Renaud, Carsten, Sørlie, Jane, Dolven
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Norway; Øksfjord; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/81608; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-84674; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106818

Intensive fish farming is a major industry, but the extent of organic matter (OM) and heavy metal pollution by fish farms is debated. This study established in situ reference conditions using geochemical parameters and fossil benthic foraminiferal assemblages in dated sediment cores to identify pote...