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National Status and Trends, Benthic Surveillance Project Fluorescent Aromatic Compounds (FAC) Data, 1984-1991, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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The National Status and Trends (NSandT) Benthic Surveillance Fluorescent Aromatic Compounds (FAC) file reports the trace concentrations of Fluorescent Aromatic Compounds. The presence of FACs in fish liver and bile indicate exposure to toxins, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The Benthic Surveillance Fluorescent Aromatic Compounds file is constructed as a horizontally formatted table.
In response to concerns over environmental quality of the Nation's coastal and estuarine ecosystems, NOAA created the National Status and Trends (NSandT) Program in 1984. From 1984 through 1993, the Benthic Surveillance Project monitored chemical concentrations in the livers (and for metabolites of PAH's in the bile) of bottom-dwelling fish and in sediments at the sites of fish capture. The Benthic Surveillance Project also measured the biological effects of contaminant exposure, primarily as prevalence's of toxicopathic liver diseases.
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Chemical contaminants of benthic fish
Coastal Monitoring
FAC
Fluorescent Aromatic Compounds
NCCOS Research Data Type > Field Observation
NCCOS Research Priority > Long-term Monitoring
NCCOS Research Priority > Stressors, Impacts, Mitigation, and Restoration (SIMR)
NCCOS Research Topic > Bioeffects/Toxicity
NCCOS Research Topic > Chemical Contaminants
NCCOS Research Topic > Monitoring
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Apalachicola Bay, St. George Island
Baltimore Harbor, Brewerton Channel
Barataria Bay, Barataria Pass
Beaufort Sea, Oliktok Point
Bering Sea, Dutch Harbor
Biscayne Bay, Chicken Key
Boca de Quadra, Bacrian Point
Bodega Bay, North
Boston Harbor, Deer Island
Buzzards Bay, West Island
Calcasieu River, Bayou d Inde
Cape Elizabeth, Richmond Island
Cape Fear River, Horseshoe Shaol
Casco Bay, Great Chebeague Island
Charleston Harbor, Coastal
Charlotte Harbor, Cape Haze
Chesapeake Bay, Chester River
Choctawhatchee Bay, Choctawhatchee Bay
Chukchi Sea, Red Dog Mine
Columbia River, Desdemona Sands
Coos Bay, North Bend
Corpus Christi Bay, Long Reef
Dana Point Harbor, Outside
Dana Point, Inside Harbor
Delaware Bay, Brandywine Shoal
Estero Bay, Estero Bay
Frenchmans Bay, Long Porcupine Island
Galveston Bay, East Bay
Great Bay, Intracoastal Waterway
Gulf of Alaska, Kamishak Bay
Heron Bay, Heron Bay
Hudson River, Englewood Cliffs
Humboldt Bay, Indian Island
Johns Bay, Pemaquid Neck
Lavaca Bay, Point Comfort
Long Island Sound, Lloyd Point
Lower Laguna Madre, Laguna Heights
Lutak Inlet, Chilkoot River Mouth
Machias Bay, Chance Island
Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth Entrance
Merrimac River, Plum Island
Mission Bay, Outside
Mississippi River Delta, Head of Passes
Mobile Bay, North Point
Monterey Bay, Indian Head Beach
NCCOS Research Location > Geographic Area > Coastal Ocean
NCCOS Research Location > Region > Alaska
NCCOS Research Location > Region > East Coast
NCCOS Research Location > Region > Gulf of Mexico
NCCOS Research Location > Region > West Coast
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Alabama
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Alaska
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > California
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Connecticut
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Delaware
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Florida
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Georgia
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Louisiana
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Maine
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Maryland
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Massachusetts
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Mississippi
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > New Jersey
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > New York
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > North Carolina
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Oregon
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Rhode Island
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > South Carolina
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Texas
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Virginia
NCCOS Research Location > U.S. States and Territories > Washington
Nahku Bay, East Side
Narragansett Bay, Conanicut Island
New Bedford Harbor, Clarks Point
Niantic Bay, Black Point
Norton Sound, Nome
Pamlico Sound, Jones Bay
Pascagoula River, Escatawpa River
Penobscot Bay, Colt Head Island
Pensacola Bay, Pensacola Bay
Prince William Sound, Port Valdez
Puget Sound, Commencement Bay
Raritan Bay, East Reach
Round Island, Round Island
Salem Harbor, Folger Point
San Antonio Bay, Mosquito Point
San Diego Bay, Harbor Island
San Francisco Bay, Castro Creek
San Luis Obispo Bay, San Luis Obispo Bay
San Pedro Bay, Cerritos Channel
Santa Monica Bay, Manhatten Beach
Sapelo Sound, Dog Hammock
Savannah River, Elba Island
Skagway, Skagway River
St. Andrews Bay, Military Point
St. Johns River, Arlington Channel
St. Lucie River, Stuart
Tampa Bay, Northern Tampa Bay
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone
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Cite As: National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, [Date of Access]: National Status and Trends, Benthic Surveillance Project Fluorescent Aromatic Compounds (FAC) Data, 1984-1991, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/39259.
NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
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Access Constraints: None
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Use Constraints: NOAA requests that all individuals who download NSandT data acknowledge the source of these data in any reports, papers, or presentations. If you publish these data, please include a statement similar to: "Some or all of the data described in this article were produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through its National Status and Trends Program".
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NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP)
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39259
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Accuracy
The quality of the analytical data generated by the NSandT Program is overseen by the QA Project component, which has been in operation since 1985 and is designed to document sampling and analytical procedures, and to reduce intralaboratory and interlaboratory variation. The QA Project documentation will facilitate comparisons among different monitoring programs with similar QA activities and thus will extend the temporal and spatial scale of such programs. To document laboratory expertise, the QA Project requires all NSandT laboratories to participate in a continuing series of intercomparison exercises utilizing a variety of materials. The organic analytical intercomparison exercises are coordinated by the NIST, and the inorganic exercises by the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada. Details of quality assurance for the Benthic Surveillance Program can be found in Lauenstein and Cantillo, 1993. The analytical instruments were calibrated by standard laboratory procedures including: constructing calibration curves, running blank and spiked quality control samples, and analyzing standard reference materials.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy
The same kind of field/site data have been supplied since the start of the Benthic Surveillance Project, in 1984. Original site coordinates were derived from Loran-C time conversions. Early sites information resulting from Loran-C was converted from time delay information to latitudes and longitudes. These earlier data may be suspect when sites were located close to large structures that could have interfered with accurate time delays. When GPS was first available the signal was intentionally degraded so earlier coordinate information, even if it resulted from GPS, is not as accurate as data would be today.Because fish are not sessile, fish trawls have been made along different tracks in the water body of interest. The latitude/longitude coordinates provided in this file represent a site center and trawling occurs within a 1 km radius of this location.
Completeness Report
Analytical protocols for the quantification of the NSandT organic contaminants were developed by MacLeod et al. (1984) at the NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, WA. These methods were prescribed for all NMFS laboratories participating in the Benthic Surveillance Program, when it began in 1984. Three NMFS laboratories used these methods in 1984: Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), Gloucester, MA; Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC), Charleston, SC; and Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC), Seattle WA. The philosophy associated with the development of exacting protocols for the quantification of organic contaminants was that the same analytical methods would increase the likelihood of data being comparable among laboratories. Even though interlaboratory comparisons were initiated at the start of the NSandT Program, it was felt that a method-driven QA and analytical effort for the quantification of organic contaminants was the best way to begin. In 1985, the protocols were updated by MacLeod et al., 1985. This method has been further edited and can be found in volume 1 of Technical Memorandum 71. The NSandT Mussel Watch Project (MWP) began in 1986. At that time, both the MWP and BSP laboratories were allowed to use any analytical method if it could be proven that the proposed alternate procedure was equal to or better than earlier MacLeod et al. (1984,1985) methods.
Conceptual Consistency
Fish in the correct size range were dissected in the onboard laboratory immediately after collection. This ensured that a determination could be made regarding whether sufficient material had been collected and whether the sample material was of high quality. If either one of these criteria was not met, the opportunity existed to continue sample collection. Also, field dissection minimizes contamination problems associated with dissection of frozen fish samples. Frozen fish tissues when thawed, may lose their integrity and one tissue type may contaminate another (e.g., a liver sample could be contaminated by PAH metabolites from the bile duct). Because most fish were dissected onboard ship, a special effort was made to develop an environment as close to clean-room conditions as possible. All fish were dissected in positive pressure laminar flow hoods. Air was drawn into the laminar flow hood from above and filtered by a high efficiency particle attenuator (HEPA) filter before it passed over the fish samples. Stainless steel tools were used to dissect fish for organic analysis. Titanium tools were used to dissect fish for trace metal analyses because tools made of this element do not pose the problem of introducing nickel, chromium, and/or iron into the specimens to be analyzed. Specimens were analyzed for the latter three elements by the NSandT Program. After knives had been sharpened, and before dissections began at a new site or of a new species, the dissection equipment was thoroughly cleaned with detergent solution, rinsed extensively with tap water, rinsed in distilled or high-purity water (i.e., milli-Q or HPLC-grade water), rinsed with isopropanol (dichloromethane before 1990) under a fume hood, followed by a rinse with distilled water, and placed on a similarly cleaned Teflon cutting board that was allowed to air-dry in the laminar-flow hood. Between individual fish of the same species at the same site, the tools were rinsed with distilled water before any fluid or tissue had a chance to dry on the knife. Sexually mature fish were primarily used in this program, determined by size of each species.
The primary collection apparatus was Otter trawls. Occasionally, along the Southeast and Gulf Coasts, fish were taken with seine nets, gill nets, or with hook and line. These alternate collection methods were necessary because larger fish, such as older Atlantic croaker, were able to avoid an Otter trawl, or were found in untrawlable habitats such as shallow water, along marsh edges, and over oyster reefs. Fish in the correct size range were dissected in the onboard laboratory immediately after collection. This ensured that a determination could be made regarding whether sufficient material had been collected and whether the sample material was of high quality. If either one of these criteria was not met, the opportunity existed to continue sample collection. Because most fish were dissected onboard ship, a special effort was made to develop an environment as close to clean-room conditions as possible. All fish were dissected in positive pressure laminar flow hoods. Air was drawn into the laminar flow hood from above and filtered by a high efficiency particle attenuator (HEPA) filter before it passed over the fish samples. Stainless steel tools were used to dissect fish for organic analysis. Titanium tools were used to dissect fish for trace metal analyses because tools made of this element do not pose the problem of introducing nickel, chromium, and/or iron into the specimens to be analyzed. Specimens were analyzed for the latter three elements by the NSandT Program. After knives had been sharpened, and before dissections began at a new site or of a new species, the dissection equipment was thoroughly cleaned with detergent solution, rinsed extensively with tap water, rinsed in distilled or high-purity water (i.e., milli-Q or HPLC-grade water), rinsed with isopropanol (dichloromethane before 1990) under a fume hood, followed by a rinse with distilled water, and placed on a similarly cleaned Teflon cutting board that was allowed to air-dry in the laminar-flow hood. Between individual fish of the same species at the same site, the tools were rinsed with distilled water before any fluid or tissue had a chance to dry on the knife. Sexually mature fish were primarily used in this program, determined by size of each species.Process Date Range is 1984 - 1991
1991-01-01T00:00:00