CBOS damage assessment on Pacific herring - Toxicity of petroleum hydrocarbons (PAHs) to fish early life stages

The Ecotox Program is at the forefront, nationally and internationally, of targeted research to characterize the impacts of petroleum hydrocarbons on NOAA trust resources, particularly fish early life stages. This work is extending lessons learned from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, through the Cosco Busan spill in San Francisco Bay, to an array of current and intensive activities associated with the Deepwater Horizon natural resource damage assessment in the Gulf of Mexico. This research has been particularly influential in recent years (PNAS papers in 2011 and 2012), with major Deepwater papers forthcoming in 2012 and 2013. Funding has come from NOS/ORR, the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, the Prince William Sound Regional Citizen's Advisory Council, the San Francisco Estuary Institute, and other sources. Ecotox is currently developing new tools to assess PAH exposure and toxicity in fish and other animals, with national applicability - e.g., in advance of anticipated oil drilling in the Arctic, beginning in the summer of 2012.

3 year study of effects of the Cosco Busan oil spill. Morphology, heart rate, hatching rate data of Pacific herring planted at oil and reference sites and correlating herring spawns at these sites. This work supports NOAA’s Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program (DARRP).

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Subject to Public Access to Research Results (PARR): No: Data Not Yet Collected

Peer Reviewed Publication: Incardona, J.P., Vines, C.A., and Scholz, N.L. (2012) Unexpectedly high rates of early life stage mortality among herring spawned in the 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill impact zone in San Francisco Bay. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(2):E51-58..

Peer Reviewed Publication: Incardona, J.P., Vines, C.A., Linbo, T.L., Myers, M.S., Labenia, J.S., French, B.L., Olson, O.P., Sol, S.Y., Willis, M.L., Jarvis, M., Newman, J., Meeks, D. Menard, K., Sloan, C.A., Baldwin, D.H., Ylitalo, G.M., Collier, T.K., Cherr, G.N. and Scholz, N.L. (2012) Potent photoxicity of marine bunker oil to translucent herring embryos after prolonged weathering. Public Library of Science ONE, 7(2): e30116. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030116..

Peer Reviewed Publication: Incardona, J.P., Carls, M.G., Day, H.L., Sloan, C.A., Bolton, J.L., Collier, T.K., and Scholz N.L. (2009). Cardiac arrhythmia is the primary response of embryonic Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) exposed to crude oil during weathering. Environmental Science and Technology, 43:201-207..

Peer Reviewed Publication: Hicken, C.L., Linbo, T.L., Baldwin, D.W., Willis, M.L., Myers, M.S., Holland, L., Larsen, M., Stekoll, M.S., Rice, S.D., Collier, T.K., Scholz, N.L., and Incardona, J.P. (2011). Sublethal exposure to crude oil during embryonic development alters cardiac morphology and reduces aerobic capacity in adult fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108:7086-7090..

Peer Reviewed Publication: Incardona, J.P., Linbo, T.L., and Scholz, N.L. (2011). Cardiac toxicity of 5-ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is differentially dependent on the aryl hydrocarbon receptor 2 isoform during zebrafish development. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 257:242-249..

Peer Reviewed Publication: Incardona, J.P., Carls, M.G., Teraoka, H., Sloan, C.A., Collier, T.K., and Scholz, N.L. (2005). Aryl hydrocarbon receptor-independent toxicity of weathered crude oil during fish development. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113:1755-1762..

Peer Reviewed Publication: Carls, M.G., Holland, L., Larsen, M., Collier, T.K., Scholz, N.L., and Incardona, J.P. (2008). Fish embryos are damaged by dissolved PAHs, not oil particles. Aquatic Toxicology, 88:121-127..

Peer Reviewed Publication: Hatlen, K., Sloan, C.A., Burrows, D.G., Collier, T.K., Scholz, N.L., and Incardona, J.P. (2010). Natural sunlight and residual fuel oils are a lethal combination for fish embryos. Aquatic Toxicology, 99:56-64..

Peer Reviewed Publication: Incardona, J.P., Collier, T.K., and Scholz, N.L. (2011). Oil spills and fish health: exposing the heart of the matter. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 21:3-4..

Peer Reviewed Publication: Incardona, J.P., Collier, T.K., and Scholz, N.L. (2004). Defects in cardiac function precede morphological abnormalities in fish embryos exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 196:191-205..

Peer Reviewed Publication: Incardona, J.P., Day, H.L., Collier, T.K., and Scholz, N.L. (2006). Developmental toxicity of 4-ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in zebrafish is differentially dependent on AH receptor isoforms and hepatic cytochrome P4501A metabolism. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 217:308-321..