The impact of pesticides used at the agricultural land of the Puck commune on the environment of the Puck Bay

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Grażyna Pazikowska-Sapota¹  Katarzyna Galer-Tatarowicz¹  Grażyna Dembska¹  Marta Wojtkiewicz¹  Ewelina Duljas¹  Stefan Pietrzak²  Lidia Anita Dzierzbicka-Glowacka³ 

[1] Department of Environment Protection, Gdynia Maritime University, Maritime Institute;Department of Water Quality, Institute of Technology and Life Sciences in Falenty;Physical Oceanography Department, Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Science

关键词: Pesticides;    Active substances;    Surface runoff;    Groundwater;    Agricultural land;    Sediments;    Fish;    Puck Bay;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.8789

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe Puck commune is one of the largest agricultural regions in the Pomeranian Voivodship that due to the pollution of the coastal zone negatively affects the functioning of the Puck Bay, including health of its inhabitants, and causes decrease in tourism as well as in overall economic value of the region. The objective of the undertaken study was to assess the extent of risk to the environment posed by the pesticides used in agricultural production in the coastal area of the Puck commune.MethodsThe study focused on organochlorine insecticides (DDT and its metabolites: α, β, ϒ, δ-HCH, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, isodrine), glyphosate and its metabolite AMPA, and 309 active substances used as pesticides. Analyses were carried out using GC-MS, GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS techniques. The undertaken novel approach included “tracking” of a large number of substances in multiple environmental matrices (surface water, groundwater, seawater, soil, sediment and fish), along with examination of their transport routes from the pesticides application locality to the Puck Bay.ResultsGlyphosate and its metabolite AMPA, anthraquinone, boscalid, chlorpyrifos-ethyl, dimethachlor, diflufenican, difenoconazole, epoxiconazole, fluopicolide and metazachlor were found in soil samples and surface water samples collected from drainage ditches surrounding the studied agricultural plots. In the samples of seawater and fish taken from the Puck Bay no studied pesticides were found.

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