Appendix A 



International Mussel Watch Workshop 

 Barcelona, Spain 

 4-7 December 1978 



Convened by: U.S. National Research Council 



Chair: Edward D. Goldberg 



Scripps Institution of Oceanography 

 La Jolla, CA, USA 



The workshop had five major goals: 



1 . to assess the use of bivalves in determining environmental concentrations of chemical 



pollutants and pathogens; 



2. to evaluate current data with respect to distinguishing natural from pollutant 



concentrations for heavy metals and hydrocarbons and determining changes in the 

 amount of pollution as a function of time; 



3. to formulate effective biological monitoring strategies to complement the measurement 



of pollutant levels; • 



4. to appraise existing techniques for analysis and to comparisons and standards for all 



collectives of pollutants; and 



5. to consider the expansion of the U.S. Mussel Watch program to a worldwide basis as 



a continuous monitor of the health of the coastal waters. 



PARTICIPANTS 



J. ALBAIGES, International Congress on Analytical Techniques in Environmental Chemistry, 



Barcelona, Spain 

 VICTOR ANDERLINI, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait 



UTRGUT BLAKAS, Middle East Technical University, Marine Science Department, Icel, Turkey 

 ANTONI BALLESTER, Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras, Paseo Nacional, Barcelona, 



Spain 

 MARGUERITA BARROS, Labratorio de Farmacologia, Oeiras, Portugal 

 BRIAN L. BAYNE, National Environmental Research Council, Institute for Marine 



Environmental Research, Plymouth, United Kingdom 

 MICHAEL BERNHARD, Laboratorio per lo Studio della, Contaminazione Radioattiva del Mare, 



La Spezia, Italy 



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