Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 135, Issue -, Pages 1072-1078Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.08.028
Keywords
Biomonitoring; Blue mussel (Mytilus Mulls); Dumped munitions; Marine environment; Trinitrotoluene (TNT)
Funding
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [03F0747B]
- Cluster of Excellence The Future Ocean
- Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitization (MELUND)
- State Government Schleswig-Holstein
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Bioaccumulation of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and its main metabolites 2-amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene (2-ADNT) and 4-amino-2,6-dinitrotoluene (4-ADNT) leaking from corroded munitions at a munitions dumping site (Kolberger Heide, Germany) was evaluated in transplanted blue mussels (Mytilus edulis). Six moorings with mussel bags were placed east and west at varying positions near the mine mound. In order to monitor any differences resulting from changing seasons, three exposure times were chosen. First exposure period: April-July 2016 (106 days); second exposure period: July-December 2016 (146 days); third exposure period: December 2016-March 2017 (92 days). We found amounts of 4-ADNT in mussel tissue ranging from 2.40 +/- 2.13 to 7.76 +/- 1.97 ng/(g mussel wet weight). Neither TNT nor 2-ADNT could be detected. Considering seasonal differences, orientation and distances of the moorings to the mine mound no correlation between levels in mussel tissue was evident.
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