Concentrations of hazardous substances in fish from the north-east Atlantic and Baltic regions

It should be noted that the lack of consistent or reliable data from the marine conventions or EEA counties inhibits adequate assessment of concentrations and trends of hazardous substances in European marine water

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Aggregated data do not necessarily convey the uncertainty these problems cause. A minimum of 3 herring stations were used. Comparisons are based on average of yearly regional and adjusted medians for the indicated time periods.
Geographical coverage note: Nort-east Atlantic Ocean, Baltic Sea

Publish date:: 01 Jan 2002
Last upload:: 10 Nov 2005
Temporal coverage:: 1985-2002
Tags:: fish | organic | metal | contamination | COD | mussel | State and Outlook 2005 | State and Outlook 2005 - Part A
Geographical coverage:: EU25, EU27, EU12, EU15
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency.
Source:: Data from Helcom, Ospar and EEA member countries. Concentrations in organisms. Data was collected from Marine Conventions and National Reference Centres (NRC). Most of the data was from Ospar and Helcom supplied via the ICES data centre. Ospar provided data for the north-east Atlantic and Helcom provide data for the Baltic. France, Italy and Greece provided cadmium, mercury and lead data for the Mediterranean Sea. France provided lindane data and Italy provided DDT data in mussels for the Mediterranean Sea. Received data from the Programme for the Assessment and Control of Pollution in the Mediterranean Region (MEDPOL) concerned Albania, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Turkey and Yugoslavia, but most of these data were from before 1991 and were regarded as too old to represent current concentrations and trends. It was apparent that MEDPOL member countries applied different guidelines for sampling which impaired comparison of data.
Owners:: European Environment Agency
Figure type:: Graph