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Uptake of Kepone from sediment suspensions and subsequent loss by the oyster Crassostrea virginica

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Oysters in laboratory trays received sediment suspensions prepared with sediments contaminated with Kepone** from the James River, Virginia, USA. Oysters in trays were also exposed to water pumped directly out of two tributary creeks of the James River and in wire trays on the bottom of the James River. Oysters took up Kepone from the sediment suspensions very rapidly and the steady state in uptake appeared to be attained within one week. Loss of Kepone by oysters was also rapid. An average of 70% (95% confidence interval=51–90%) of the Kepone in their tissues was eliminated during the first week, but a small residue was still present in the oysters after four weeks. The computed biological half-like of Kepone in oysters ranged between 3 and 10 d, with a mean of 5.2 d. Computation of concentration factors in the tissues of the experimental oysters included the volume of water in which the sediment particles were suspended. Concentration factors in laboratory experiments ranged from 574 to 4 167 and in field experiments from 28 000 to 56 000. Concentration factors were inversely related to concentrations in the sediment suspensions. It is suggested that this relationship may have resulted from interference of uptake by increasing concentrations of suspended matter or from a significant uptake of Kepone from solution. It is also suggested that Kepone available to oysters in solution may be of a magnitude similar to that available from sediments in suspension when the density of those sediments in the water is taken into consideration.

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Morales-Alamo, R., Haven, D.S. Uptake of Kepone from sediment suspensions and subsequent loss by the oyster Crassostrea virginica . Mar. Biol. 74, 187–201 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413922

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