title: Organic and trace metal contaminants in sediments and English sole tissues from Vancouver Harbour, Canada.
abstract: As part of a multinational workshop on marine environmental quality, sediments were collected from seven sites in Vancouver Harbour and analyzed for polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organochlorines (OCs), and for trace metals. English sole were collected from five sites, and muscle was analyzed for trace metals and liver for OCs. As expected, sediment PAH and OC concentrations and tissue OC concentrations were higher at sites east of the First Narrows, compared to the outer harbor and reference sites. Sediment PAH concentrations east of the First Narrows were similar to concentrations at moderately contaminated sites in Puget Sound, south of Vancouver Harbour. In contrast, concentrations of OCs in sediments and tissue were low to moderate, even at relatively contaminated sites within Vancouver Harbour. Although several trace metals in sediments were higher than in contaminated sediments from Puget Sound, trace metals measured in fish muscle were lower.
authors.affiliation: Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 2725 Montlake Boulevard East, Seattle, WA 98112, USA. jennie.bolton@noaa.gov
authors.forename: Jennie L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Bolton
authors.forename: Carla M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Stehr
authors.forename: Daryle T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Boyd
authors.forename: Douglas G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Burrows
authors.forename: Alexander V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Tkalin
authors.forename: Tatiana S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Lishavskaya
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001955:British Columbia; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005432:Flounder; D019015:Geologic Sediments / Q000737:chemistry*; D006843:Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated; D007306:Insecticides / Q000032:analysis / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry; D019216:Metals, Heavy / Q000032:analysis / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000032:analysis / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D006843:Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated; D007306:Insecticides; D019216:Metals, Heavy; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons