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Session 3. Status, trends and effects of pollutants in coastal ecosystems: Implications for wildlife and humans

Co-Convenors: Olga Lukyanova (Russia) and Won Joon Shim (Korea)

Invited Speakers:
Sandra O'Neill (NWFSC, NOAA, USA)
Lorrie Rea (University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA)

Marine pollutants can impact the quality and/or abundance of invertebrates, fish, and wildlife. In addition, the contamination of seafood can diminish the viability of commercial species and/or deliver potentially harmful contaminants to human consumers. While pollutant topics vary geographically, a number of priority pollutants are common throughout the northern hemisphere. This session will highlight a number of practical approaches to assessing the status, trends and effects of emerging and/or priority pollutants in the PICES region, as well as examples from other parts of the world. Some of these approaches are presently being used as indicators of marine environmental quality in some jurisdictions. Examples include the 'Mussel Watch'’ program for monitoring metals and persistent organic pollutants (POPs), spatial and temporal trends in POPs in seabird eggs, and effects of POPs and hydrocarbons on the health of marine biota. Some of these efforts have proven very useful in revealing improvements to marine ecosystem health subsequent to the implementation of regulations, including the dramatic declines in PCB, DDT, dioxin and organotin levels and associated effects. Nevertheless, a number of pollutant concerns are emerging, such as replacement flame retardants, pharmaceuticals, and current use pesticides. Characterizing the status, trends and effects of marine pollutants in coastal ecosystem components can provide cost-effective means to guide regulations, source control and/or remediation strategies that will ultimately protect ecosystem health and services.

 
Wednesday, October 16
 
Sandra O'Neill, Gina Ylitalo, David Herman and James West (Invited)
Persistent organic pollutant fingerprints in five Pacific salmon species (Oncorhynchus spp.): Evidence of distinct contaminant sources associated with their marine distribution and feeding
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Lorrie D. Rea, J. Margaret Castellini, Lucero Correa, Brian S. Fadely, Vladimir N. Burkanov and Todd M. O'Hara (Invited)
Some maternal Steller sea lion diets elevate fetal mercury concentrations in the western Aleutian Island area of population decline
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Yutaka Watanuki, Ai Yamashita, Mayumi Ishizuka, Yoshinori Ikenaka, Shouta M.M. Nakayama, Chihiro Ishii, Takashi Yamamoto, Motohiro Ito, Tomohiro Kuwae and Philip N. Trathan
Feathers of tracked seabirds reveal a spatial pattern of marine pollution
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Won Joon Shim, Nam Sook Kim, Sang Hee Hong, Gi Myung Han and Sung Yong Ha
An almost successful story of TBT regulation to protect the coastal environments of Korea
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Hideaki Maki, Gen Kanaya, Shin-Ichi Fukuchi, Kazuki Miura, Hisao Sasaki, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Nobuo Chiba and Osamu Nishimura
Petrogenic and pyrogenic PAHs contamination in the sediments in Tohoku coastal seas, Japan by the great tsunami on 3.11.2011
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Jean-Pierre Desforges, Moira Galbraith, Neil Dangerfield and Peter Ross
Microplastics in the marine environment in coastal British Columbia
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Jingfeng Fan and Hongxia Ming
The contamination and risk assessment of infective human enteric viruses in surface seawater from Bohai Bay, China
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