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The mismatch of bioaccumulated trace metals (Cu, Pb and Zn) in field and transplanted oysters (Saccostrea glomerata) to ambient surficial sediments and suspended particulate matter in a highly urbanised estuary (Sydney estuary, Australia)

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A significant correlation between sedimentary metals, particularly the ‘bio-available’ fraction, and bioaccumulated metal concentrations in the native Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata) tissues has been successfully demonstrated previously for Cu and Zn in a number of estuaries in New South Wales, Australia. However, this relationship has been difficult to establish in a highly modified estuary (Sydney estuary, Australia) where metal contamination is of greatest concern and where a significant relationship would be most useful for environmental monitoring. The use of the Sydney rock oyster as a biomonitoring tool for metal contamination was assessed in the present study by investigating relationships between metals attached to sediments and suspended particulate matter (SPM) to bioaccumulated concentrations in oyster tissues. Surficial sediments (both total and fine-fraction), SPM and wild oysters were collected over 3 years from three embayments (Chowder Bay, Mosman Bay and Iron Cove) with each embayment representing a different physiographic region of Sydney estuary. In addition, a transplant experiment of farmed oysters was conducted in the same embayments for 3 months. No relationship was observed between sediments or SPM metals (Cu, Pb and Zn) to tissue of wild oysters; however, significant relationship was observed against transplanted oysters. The mismatch between wild and farmed, transplanted oysters is perplexing and indicates that wild oysters are unsuitable to be used as a biomonitoring tool due to the involvement of unknown complex factors while transplanted oysters hold strong potential.

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This study was supported by an Australian Research Council grant (no. LP0991037). We thank the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, Mosman Amateur Sailing Club and University of Technology Sydney for allowing access to collect samples and deploy oyster cages at their properties. Tom Savage is thanked for ICP-OES analysis of all samples and maintaining data quality throughout. Dr. Russell Richards is thanked for his contribution with the oyster transplant experiment and Aroon Melwani for processing these oyster samples in the laboratory. Mr. Giha Lee and Mrs. Eun Sil Lee are thanked for the help with collecting wild oyster and sediment samples from the field.

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Lee, JH., Birch, G.F. The mismatch of bioaccumulated trace metals (Cu, Pb and Zn) in field and transplanted oysters (Saccostrea glomerata) to ambient surficial sediments and suspended particulate matter in a highly urbanised estuary (Sydney estuary, Australia). Environ Monit Assess 188, 236 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-016-5244-0

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