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The Mussel Watch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Edward D. Goldberg ,
Vaughan T. Bowen ,
John W. Farrington ,
George Harvey ,
John H. Martin ,
Patrick L. Parker ,
Robert W. Risebrough ,
William Robertson ,
Eric Schneider  and
Eric Gamble
Edward D. Goldberg
Affiliation:
Geological Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
Vaughan T. Bowen
Affiliation:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
John W. Farrington
Affiliation:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
George Harvey
Affiliation:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
John H. Martin
Affiliation:
Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, Moss Landing, California 95039, USA
Patrick L. Parker
Affiliation:
Marine Station, University of Texas, Port Aransas, Texas 78373, USA
Robert W. Risebrough
Affiliation:
Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, P.O. Box 247, Bodega Bay, California 94923, USA
William Robertson
Affiliation:
Commission on Natural Resources, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20418, USA,
Eric Schneider
Affiliation:
Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Research Laboratory, South Ferry Road, Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882, USA
Eric Gamble
Affiliation:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
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The levels of four sets of pollutants (heavy-metals, artificial radionuclides, petroleum components, and halogenated hydrocarbons), have been measured in U.S. coastal waters, using bivalves as sentinel organisms. The strategies of carrying out this programme are outlined and the results from the first year's work are given. Varying degrees of pollution in U.S. coastal waters have been indicated by elevated levels of pollutants in the bivalves, which comprised certain species of mussels and oysters and were collected at over one hundred localities.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , Summer 1978 , pp. 101 - 125
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1978

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