The Application and Development of the Mussel Watch System in China
The marine Mussel Watch concept is using marine bivalves as sentinel organisms for coastal pollution level monitoring and investigation. Based upon this concept, the China Mussel Watch system was constructed in 2006. During 2006~2007, the China Mussel Watch program was carried out at 75 sampling stations along the Chinese coastal waters and 12 pollutants (including Hg, As, Cd, Cr, Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni, BHC, DDT, PCBs and TPH) was analyzed. This paper described and evaluated the pollution level of the oysters by these pollutants in the South China Sea. According to the data of the China Mussel Watch program from 2006 to 2007 and the relative data of the South China Sea Mussel Watch program (SCSMW) which initiated at 1989, the temporal and spatial variation characteristics of 12 pollutants along the coastal waters of northern South China Sea during the last 20 years were analyzed and expounded, and the priority pollutants as well as the pollution hotspots which need to be paid more attention to in the future were pointed out and suggested.
China Mussel Watch Sentinel organisms pollutants Hotspots
Wengui Cai Xiaoping Jia Qin Lin Chunhou Li Juli Gan
Key Laboratory of Fishery Ecology Environment, Ministry of Agriculture Guangzhou 510300, PR China Key Laboratory of Fishery Ecology Environment, Guangdong Province Guangzhou 510300, PR China South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute Chinese Academy of
国际会议
上海
英文
4512-4518
2008-05-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）