Biological Abstracts . NTIS is prepared by the U. S. Dept. of Commerce ancJ has no 

 equivalent printed form. In addition, manual searching of Chemical Abstracts was done 

 covering volumes 1 (1907) through 115 (issue 10) (1991). Major investigators in 

 the field of marine mussel watch studies worldwide have been contacted for comments 

 and suggestions. 



The search strategy was designed to select citations mentioning mussels or oysters and 

 any of the chemicals found in Table 1. The name and Chemical Abstracts Registry 

 numbers of all the chemicals were used in the search strategy. The search was limited to 

 citations in English. The major and trace element search was limited to citations 

 published after 1976 due to the large number of entries found. As the compilation 

 progressed, however, papers on other environmentally significant chemicals (such as 

 dioxins), papers and reports in languages other than English, and older citations, were 



Table 1. Chemicals determined as part of the NOAA National Status and Trends Program 



Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 



Biphenyl 



Naphthalene 



1-Methylnaphthaiene 



2-Methylnaphthalene 



2,6-DimethyInaphthalene 



Acenaphthene 



Acenaphthylene 



1 ,6,7-Trimethylnaphthalene 



Fluorene 



Phenanthrene 



1 -Methylphenanthrene 



Anthracene 



Fluoranthene 



Pyrene 



Ben2(a)anthracene 



Chrysene 



Benzo[a]pyrene 



Ben2o[e]pyrene 



Perylene 



Dibenz[a,hjanthracene 



Benzo[b]fluoranthene 



Benzo[k]fluoranthene 



lndeno(1 ,2,3-cd]pyrene 



Benzo(g,h,i]perylene 



DDT and metabolites 



2,4'-DDD 

 2,4'-DDE 

 2,4'-DDT 



4,4'-DDD 

 4,4'-DDE 

 4,4*-DDT 



Chlorinated pesticides other than 

 DDT 



Tributyltin [bis(tri-n-butyltin)oxide] 

 Dibutyltin (degradation product) 

 Monobutyltin (degradation product) 



