TY - JOUR T1 - Integrated chemical and biological assessment of contaminant impacts in selected european coastal and offshore marine areas A1 - Hylland,Ketil A1 - Robinson,Craig D. A1 - Burgeot,Thierry A1 - Martinez-Gomez,Concepcion A1 - Lang,Thomas A1 - Svavarsson,Jorundur A1 - Thain,John E. A1 - Vethaak,A. Dick A1 - Gubbins,Mattew J. AD - Univ Oslo, Dept Biosci, POB 1066, N-0316 Oslo, Norway. AD - Marine Lab, Marine Scotland Sci, 375 Victoria Rd, Aberdeen AB11 9DB, Scotland. AD - IFREMER, Lab Ecotoxicol, Rue Ile Yeu,BP 21105, F-44311 Nantes 03, France. AD - IEO, Oceanog Ctr Murcia, Varadero 1,POB 22, Murcia 30740, Spain. AD - Thunen Inst Fisheries Ecol, Deichstr 12, D-27472 Cuxhaven, Germany. AD - Univ Iceland, Askja Nat Sci Bldg,Sturlugata 7, IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland. AD - Cefas Weymouth Lab, Barrack Rd, Weymouth DT4 8UB, Dorset, England. AD - Deltares, Marine & Coastal Syst, POB 177, NL-2600 MH Delft, Netherlands. AD - Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Global Change Inst, Inst Environm Studies, Boelelaan 1085, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands. UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2016.05.014 DO - 10.1016/j.marenvres.2016.05.014 KW - ICON KW - Contaminants KW - European seas KW - Biological effects KW - Assessment N2 - This paper reports a full assessment of results from ICON, an international workshop on marine integrated contaminant monitoring, encompassing different matrices (sediment, fish, mussels, gastropods), areas (Iceland, North Sea, Baltic, Wadden Sea, Seine estuary and the western Mediterranean) and endpoints (chemical analyses, biological effects). ICON has demonstrated the use of a framework for integrated contaminant assessment on European coastal and offshore areas. The assessment showed that chemical contamination did not always correspond with biological effects, indicating that both are required. The framework can be used to develop assessments for EU directives. If a 95% target were to be used as a regional indicator of MSFD GES, Iceland and offshore North Sea would achieve the target using the ICON dataset, but inshore North Sea, Baltic and Spanish Mediterranean regions would fail. Y1 - 2017/03 PB - Elsevier Sci Ltd JF - Marine Environmental Research SN - 0141-1136 VL - 124 SP - 130 EP - 138 ID - 44583 ER -