Accession Number:
ADA191576
Title:
Effects of TBT (Tributyltin) on Marine Organisms: Field Assessment of a New Site-Specific Bioassay System.
Descriptive Note:
Professional paper for period ending Oct 87,
Corporate Author:
NAVAL OCEAN SYSTEMS CENTER SAN DIEGO CA
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1987-12-01
Pagination or Media Count:
11.0
Abstract:
A Portable environmental Test System PETS was evaluated in San Diego Bay over a 7-month period using tributyltin TBT antifouling leachates. Three TBT concentrations x 0.065, 0.077 and 0.193 ugl were tested against seawater controls with three replicates of each using 340-1 tanks. Unfiltered seawater was pumped over a TBT-coated panel, creating a TBT-leachate which was diluted with seawater in mixing bins and distributed to test tanks. There were no significant effects attributable to TBT on fouling communities species abundance and biomass, mussel and clam condition indexes mussel gonad index or oyster growth. TBT reduced juvenile mussel growth rate. Mussels and clams accumulated TBT at higher test concentrations, there was an inverse relationship between dose and bioconcentration factor.
Descriptors:
- *WATER POLLUTION
- *ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
- *AQUATIC ANIMALS
- *ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS
- *TIN COMPOUNDS
- ANTIFOULING
- COMMUNITIES
- CONTROL
- DISTRIBUTION
- ENVIRONMENTAL TESTS
- FIELD TESTS
- FOULING
- INVERSION
- LEACHING
- LIQUIDS
- MUSSELS
- OYSTERS
- SAN DIEGO BAY
- SEA WATER
- TANKS(CONTAINERS)
- TEST EQUIPMENT
- GROWTH(PHYSIOLOGY)
Subject Categories:
- Water Pollution and Control