TY - JOUR
T1 - Global pollution monitoring of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), furans (PCDFs) and coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls (coplanar PCBs) using skipjack tuna as bioindicator
AU - Ueno, Daisuke
AU - Watanabe, Mafumi
AU - Subramanian, Annamalai
AU - Tanaka, Hiroyuki
AU - Fillmann, Gilberto
AU - Lam, Paul K.S.
AU - Zheng, Gene J.
AU - Muchtar, Muswerry
AU - Razak, Hamidah
AU - Prudente, Maricar
AU - Chung, Kyu Hyuck
AU - Tanabe, Shinsuke
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Dr A. Nihira (Ibaraki Prefectural Fisheries Experimental Station, Japan), Dr J. Takeuchi (Wakayama Research Center of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan), Dr H. Tameishi (Japan Fisheries Information Service Center, Japan) and Dr I. Nakamura (Kyoto University, Japan) for providing the ecological information of skipjack tuna and Mr M. Nakamura and Ms M. Takahashi (Hiraki-no-Takahashi, Co. Ltd., Japan) for collecting skipjack tuna around Japan. This study was supported partly by a Fund “21st Century COE Program” from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, “Japan-Korea Co-operative Joint Research Program on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals” from the Ministry of the Environment, Japan and “Material Cycles Modeling of Persistent Toxic Chemicals and its Policy Research Applications for Recycling and Waste Management” from the Waste Management Research Grants of the Ministry of the Environment. One of the authors (Dr Ueno) thanks the Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for the fellowship provided to him during the course of this study.
PY - 2005/7
Y1 - 2005/7
N2 - In order to elucidate the global distribution of dioxins and related compounds, such as PCDDs, PCDFs and coplanar PCBs, levels of these compounds were determined in the muscle of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) collected from the offshore waters and open seas near Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Seychelles and Brazil, and the Japan Sea, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean. PCDDs, PCDFs and coplanar PCBs were detected in almost all the specimens collected from all the locations surveyed, indicating widespread contamination by these compounds in the marine environment. Higher concentrations of dioxins and coplanar PCBs were detected in the samples from temperate Asian regions, plausibly due to larger usage and anthropogenic generation in highly industrialized countries around the East China Sea and the South China Sea, such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and coastal China.
AB - In order to elucidate the global distribution of dioxins and related compounds, such as PCDDs, PCDFs and coplanar PCBs, levels of these compounds were determined in the muscle of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) collected from the offshore waters and open seas near Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Seychelles and Brazil, and the Japan Sea, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean. PCDDs, PCDFs and coplanar PCBs were detected in almost all the specimens collected from all the locations surveyed, indicating widespread contamination by these compounds in the marine environment. Higher concentrations of dioxins and coplanar PCBs were detected in the samples from temperate Asian regions, plausibly due to larger usage and anthropogenic generation in highly industrialized countries around the East China Sea and the South China Sea, such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and coastal China.
KW - Fish
KW - Offshore water and open sea
KW - Organochlorine
KW - POPs
KW - TEQs
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/20244363397
U2 - 10.1016/j.envpol.2004.12.036
DO - 10.1016/j.envpol.2004.12.036
M3 - Article
C2 - 15840538
AN - SCOPUS:20244363397
SN - 0269-7491
VL - 136
SP - 303
EP - 313
JO - Environmental Pollution
JF - Environmental Pollution
IS - 2
ER -
