Examining Linkages Between Contaminant Inputs and Their Impacts on Living Marine Resources of the Massachusetts Bay Ecosystem through Application of the Sediment Quality Triad Method
Hyland JL and Costa H. 1995. Examining Linkages Between Contaminant Inputs and Their Impacts on Living Marine Resources of the Massachusetts Bay Ecosystem through Application of the Sediment Quality Triad Method. Massachusetts Bays Program MBP-95-03. Massachusetts Bays Program. Boston
The Massachusetts Bays Program (MBP) released a d¡aft Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) that serves as a blueprint for coordinated action to restore and protect the water quality and diverse natural resources of the Massachusetts/Cape Cod Bays ecosystem (MBP 1994). The plan identifies a need to characterize baseline conditions of living resources and their habitats in Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays and to develop a better understanding of how various anthropogenic activities may adversely affect them. The study was conducted in an effort to develop new information that could be used in addressing this particular need. In addition, the data are intended to help the MBP achieve one of its overall goals of providing a scientific basis for management decisions directed at protecting living resources and habitats of this valuable coastal system.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Hyland, J; Costa, H
- Date of Issue
- 1995
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Bays Program
- Units
- BOHA , SAMA
- Keywords
- amphipods (Amphiboda), Beverly Harbor, Boston Harbor, Boston Inner Harbor, Cape Cod Bay, Dorchester Bay, Hull MA, Metals, Organic Compounds, Quincy Bay, sea urchins (Echinoidae), Sediment, Toxicity, Toxics, Wellfleet Harbor