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A historical assessment of coastal contamination in Birch Harbor, Maine based on the analysis of mussels collected in the 1940s and the Mussel Watch Program.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Apeti, D. A. Lauenstein, G. G. Christensen, J. D. Kimbrough, K. Johnson, W. E. Kennedy, M. Grant, K. G.
Spatial Coverage	Maine
Description	Country affiliation: United States Author Affiliation: Apeti DA ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Center for Coastal Ocean Sciences, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA. dennis.apeti@noaa.gov)
Abstract	Coastal contamination in the 1940s was assessed based on analysis of canned blue mussels presumably collected from Birch Harbor, Maine, USA. Analytical results on legacy organic contaminants were compared to long-term National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Mussel Watch (MW) monitoring data to estimate the degree of coastal contamination before World War II (WWII) when many synthetic organic compounds were first introduced into the environment. While dieldrin and chlordane were not detected in the canned mussels, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) and hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) were present at lower concentrations relative to the more recent MW data. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were detected, and the later were significantly higher in canned mussels relative to the MW data (p<0.05). Furthermore, moving average analysis applied to the MW data depicted three-phased temporal trend patterns (increase-decrease-steady state) for virtually all contaminants indicating an overall increased coastal contamination in post WWII era.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	0025326X
Issue Number	5
Volume Number	60
e-ISSN	18793363
Journal	Marine Pollution Bulletin
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Publisher Date	2010-05-01
Publisher Place	Great Britain (UK)
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Discipline Biology Environmental Monitoring Food, Preserved Analysis Mytilus Edulis Metabolism Pesticides Seafood Water Pollutants, Chemical Animals Ddt History History, 20th Century Maine Oceans And Seas Polychlorinated Biphenyls Historical Article Journal Article
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Pollution Aquatic Science Oceanography

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