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DYK that shellfish serve as ideal indicators of chemical pollution?

Man in headlamp and orange life jacket collects cage of mussels at night on a rocky beachOur Mussel Watch team and partners are conducting contamination surveys across the Pacific Northwest.  Last week, they revisited a sampling site in West Seattle to collect caged mussels that will be analyzed for a suite of chemical pollutants.

https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/noaas-mussel-watch-program-expands-coastal-contamination-monitoring/