Results of the Assessment of the Western Black Sea Contamination Status in the Frame of the Misis Joint Cruise (original) (raw)
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Within the Joint MISIS cruise biota samples were taken from Romanian, Bulgarian and Turkish transects in order to evaluate the presence of hazardous substances in respect to Marine Strategy Framework Directive criteria and indicators under Descriptor 8 and Descriptor 9. The results for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons allow the classification of the biota samples as minimally and moderately contaminated. Except p, p’ DDT and its metabolites organochlorine pesticides concentrations are below detection limits. The polychlorinated biphenyls levels may not pose a significant risk for the ecosystem or human health. Heavy metals assessed with respect to their human health risk were below the maximum admissible limits.
This report is based on the activities of the MISIS project (MSFD Guiding Improvements in the Black Sea Integrated Monitoring System) with the financial support from the EC DG Env. Programme "Preparatory action – Environmental monitoring of the Black Sea Basin and a common European framework programme for development of the Black Sea region/Black Sea and Mediterranean 2011". Contributing authors: Laura Boicenco, Luminita Lazar, Andra Oros, Valentina Coatu, Florin Timofte, Emanuela-Maria Mihailov, Daniela Tiganus, Oana Culcea, Adrian Filimon: National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa", NIMRD, Romania. Adrian Teaca, Tatiana Begun, Mihaela Muresan, Dan Secrieru, Dan Vasiliu: National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology, GeoEcoMar, Romania. Snejana Moncheva, Galina Sthereva, Kremena Stefanova, Valentina Todorova, Anatoli Apostolov, Boryana Dzhurova, Anton Krastev, Radka Mavrodieva, Natalia Slabakova, Valentina Doncheva: Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, IO-BAS, Bulgaria. Levent Bat, Murat Sezgin, Fatih Sahin, Funda Üstün, Derya Ürkmez: Sinop University, Fisheries Faculty, SNU-FF, Turkey. Colpan Beken, Dilek Ediger, Hakan Atabay, Leyla Toulun: TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, MRC, Turkey. For bibliographic purposes this document should be cited as: MISIS Joint Cruise Scientific Report, 2014. “State of Environment Report of the Western Black Sea based on Joint MISIS cruise” (SoE-WBS), Moncheva S. and L. Boicenco [Eds], 401 pp.
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