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Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) comprise an array of organic pollutants, renowned for their toxicity and bioaccumulation potential. These POPs exist in abundance in the coastal and estuarine sediments, water column, and biotas, which are impacted by city sewage, agricultural runoffs, aquaculture practices, and others. This chapter summarized the findings from existing literature about the distribution and range of the principal classes of POPs. We considered dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and its metabolites (DDTs) and the isomers of hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) as the main organochlorine pesticides (OCPs). We also discussed the congeners of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). The present chapter focused on the POP accumulation in the sediments, water column, and selected biotas in the estuaries along the east coast of India. Overall, these estuaries exhibited an abundance of HCHs and DDTs with negligible to moderate pollution levels of PCBs, PAHs, and PBDEs. The pollution led by HCHs and DDTs was found to be significantly high in northern estuaries like that of Hooghly and Sundarban estuaries, compared to the southern estuaries like Vellar, Cauvery, and Coleroon estuaries of the east coast of India.
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Basu, S., Chanda, A., Das, S., Bhattacharyya, S. (2021). Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Coastal and Estuarine Regions Adjoining the Indian Periphery of the Bay of Bengal. In: Das, S., Ghosh, T. (eds) Estuarine Biogeochemical Dynamics of the East Coast of India. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68980-3_7
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