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Originally Posted by CraigD
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I’d never considered this. I hope that this effect is confined to costal waters, and that these DDT films break up, poisoning only a small area of phytoplankton, before reaching the open ocean.
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See
http://www.hancock.forests.org.au/docs/chlorine.htm
or seach in google scholar Many Australian articles strangely
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3.3.10 Plankton. Suppression of photosynthesis in phytoplankton exposed to low levels of PCBs has been reported.
98 Chronic exposure to PCBs has the ability to alter populations of the marine microlayer through the disruption of egg and larvae development.99
The microlayer is a film of natural fats and oils on the surface of the ocean - it is a highly productive ecosystem and under extreme threat of long term damage due to the fat-loving nature of organochlorines.
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See also
DDT Should it be used?
