Effects of bottom trawling on trace metal contamination of sediments along the submarine canyons of the Gulf of Palermo (southwestern Mediterranean)
Palanques, Albert (Institut de Ciències del Mar)
Paradis, Sarah (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Puig i Alenyà, Pere (Institut de Ciències del Mar)
Masqué Barri, Pere (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
Iacono, Claudio Lo (Institut de Ciències del Mar)

Data:	2022
Descripció:	13 pàg.
Resum:	Submarine canyons arc preferential pathways for transport of particulate matter and contaminants from the shelf to the deep sea. The Gulf of Palermo continental margin has a very narrow shelf (about 2-3 km wide on average) and is incised by several submarine canyons that favour shelf-slope sediment transfer. A sediment core collected on the outer shelf and six sediment cores taken at different depths along the Oreto, Eleuterio and Anerella submarine canyons were analysed to study the transfer and historical record of trace metal contamination in the Gulf of Palermo continental margin. 'I'race metals, major elements, organic carbon and sediment grain size were analysed in these cores, which were dated with Pb-210 to assess their historical compositional evolution since the late 19th century. Hg, Pb, Cu, Zn and Cd content increased until the 1970s and 1980s, associated with the increase in urbanization and industrial activities in the Palermo area, and Hg was the contaminant that reached the highest enrichments. However, the increasing trend of these metals contamination was reversed in the 1970s and 1980s, coinciding with drastic changes in the terrigenous content and grain size of sediments in the canyon axes. These changes occurred when bottom trawling fleets expanded to deeper fishing grounds equipped with powerful trawlers around the Gulf of Palermo canyon heads and flanks and along the Oreto canyon axis. Bottom trawlers have resuspended large amounts of sediment, which have been transferred into the canyons since the 1970s and 1980s and have thus increased sediment accumulation rates. This resuspended sediment has been mixing with the sediment transferred and accumulated along the canyons, diluting and reducing its trace metal contamination levels since the expansion of the bottom trawling fleets.
Ajuts:	European Commission 312762 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CTM2015-65142-R Agencia Estatal de Investigación RTI2018-096434-B-I00 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-00863 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-01588 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000928-S Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000940-M European Commission 890815
Nota:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Bottom trawling ; Contamination ; Gulf of Palermo ; Historical contamination ; Submarine canyons ; Trace metals ; Western Mediterranean ; Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis ; Environmental Monitoring ; Trace Elements ; Geologic Sediments ; Ships ; Metals, Heavy/analysis ; Metals/analysis ; Particulate Matter
Publicat a:	Science of the total environment, Vol. 814 (2022) , art. 152658, ISSN 1879-1026

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152658
PMID: 34954182

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