Pollution and benthic fish

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Organochlorine compounds

Chronic PCB contamination might affect the breading success of benthic fishes. The starry flounder population in the San Fransisco Bay displayed reduced breading success in the 1980's. Although the San Francisco bay had a relatively low PCB content, the eggs of the flounders displayed elevated PCB levels. The breading success of species in Europe might also have been affected by relatively low levels of PCBs. [1]


PFOS contamination in bib and plaice in the Western Scheldt

Volatile organic compounds in North sea fish

  1. Sinderman, C.J. 2006. Coastal Pollution: Effects on Living Resources and Humans. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 280 pp