Dataset record
- Type
- Dataset
- title in English
- Eel pollution monitoring database
- Description in English
- The Institute for Nature and Forest has build out a routine monitoring program that started in 1994 and aimed at following the tissue concentration of hazardous chemicals in eel in Flanders, Belgium. Data are available for contamination of eel by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and heavy metals. PCBs and OCPs are persistent organic pollutants that are regulated under international agreements in order to reduce or eliminate their use and release into the environment. Heavy metals of concern include, amongst others, cadmium, lead and mercury because of their toxicity and their potential to bioaccumulate.
Beside the routine monitoring, thematically, also other contaminants are measured in eel tissue (dioxin, furanss and dioxin-like PCBS, brominated flame retardants, volatile organic components, perfluoroctane sulfonate, dyes, …)
- Abstract in English
- Eel pollution data from Flanders
- Rights
- Restricted
- Version
- 1
Temporal coverage
- Temporal
-
- Start date
- 1994-03-01
- End date
- 2010-10-12
- Accrual periodicity
- Other
Thesaurus terms
- Keyword
- Anguilla anguilla
- Contaminants
- Eels (anguilla anguilla)
- Heavy metals
- PCB
- Pesticide
- Pollution