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Growth of Mytilus galloprovincialis after the Prestige oil spill
Peteiro, Laura G.
Babarro, José M. F.
Labarta, Uxío
Fernández-Reiriz, María José
Growth
Mytilus galloprovincialis
Prestige spill
Raft culture
Sublethal effects
9 pages, 8 figures, 1 table.-- Available online at www.sciencedirect.com
Growth of mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis using raft culture was investigated for the first cultured generation following the Prestige oil spill off northwestern Spain. Seed from three natural populations along the Galician coastline, Pindo, Miranda, and Redes, was transplanted to a raft culture system in Ría de Ares-Betanzos. The physiological and biochemical status of mussels at the onset of culture and the degree of oil exposure three months after the spill (February 2003) have been described already, but here growth patterns of three populations sampled monthly from seeding to thinning-out (March/August 2003) and from thinning-out to harvest (August 2003/February 2004) were assessed. Mussels from Pindo (the area most affected by the oil spill) showed significantly less growth by weight than the other populations, resulting in a lower yield at harvest. The percentage of mussels classified as "large" in the Pindo population at harvest was also significantly less than that of the other two mussel populations.
The study was
supported by contract-project PROINSA, Code CSIC
2004448, Galicia PGDIT03RMA13E.
Peer reviewed
2010-07-13T08:30:41Z
2010-07-13T08:30:41Z
2006
artículo
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
Ices Journal of Marine Science 63(6): 1005-1013 (2006)
1054-3139
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/26222
10.1016/j.icesjms.2006.03.010
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icesjms.2006.03.010
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