NOAA Study Finds High Levels of Pollutants in Guánica Bay ‘Represent Serious Toxic Threat’ to Corals, Fish

Effort creates ecological baseline to improve watershed management

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2014.  The pollutants measured in the sediments of Guánica Bay, Puerto Rico, in a new NOAA study were among the highest concentrations of PCBs, chlordane, chromium and nickel ever measured in the history of NOAA’s National Status & Trends, a nationwide contaminant monitoring program that began in 1986.

Researchers from the National Ocean Service’s National Centers for…