Mussel Watch Expansion : Great Lakes Region. Mussels are widely used as sentinel organisms to monitor chemical pollution in the aquatic environment. Mussels are filter feeding, sessile bottom dwellers that bioaccumulate many contaminants and provide time- integrated observations of chemical contamination in the ambient environment. NOAA’s Mussel Watch Program initiated monitoring in the Great Lakes in 1.
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Duluth, Minnesota, across the Great Lakes, and eastward to Cape Vincent, New York. Chemical analyses of the contaminants in mussel tissue provide a wealth of environmental monitoring data that can be used to: 1) track: the status and trends of 1. Great Lakes, 2) track the effectiveness of pollution prevention legislation and remediation programs, and 3) assess the environmental impacts in the event of catastrophic environmental disasters.
After expanding its monitoring to Great Lakes Areas of Concern with previous GLRI support, Mussel Watch is now focusing on contaminants of emerging concern in Great Lakes fish and wildlife.