Monitoring of sea contamination by chlorinated hydrocarbons in the Kaštela bay using mussels as bioindicators

Abstract

U svrhu procjene biološke dostupnosti kloriranih ugljikovodika u morskom okolišu Kaštelanskog zaljeva primijenjena je metoda aktivnog praćenja koristeći dagnje Mytilus galloprovincialis, uzorkovane na čistom području Malostonskog zaljeva i preseljene na područje istraživanja. Praćena je prostorna i vremenska raspodjela kloriranih ugljikovodika ovisno o njihovim fizikalno-kemijskim svojstvima, okolišnim i biološkim čimbenicima.To assess a bioavailability of chlorinated hydrocarbons in the sea environment of the Kaštela Bay an active monitoring method was used. For that purpose mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis were collected from the clean area of Mali Ston Bay and transplanted to the Kaštela Bay. The spatial and temporal distribution of chlorinated hydrocarbons was examined in relation to physico-chemical properties of contaminants, environmental and biological parameters