Effect of organotin compounds (TeT) used in antifouling paints on cultured marine molluscs - a literature study

Organotin salts, used as antilouling substances have a deleterious effect on the environment. particularly on molluscs and especially on the Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas. A synthesis 01 the effects 01 tributyltin (TBT) on cultured molluscs reveals the lollowing effects: 1) acute and chronic loxicity to the adults; 2) accumulation in the f1esh 01 the adults; 3) perturbation 01 reproduction particularly lertility. mortality 01 offspring. and deerease in larval growth rate; 4) deerease in the growth rate 01 juveniles and thickening 01 the shell; and 5) modilication 01 the physiology al sublethallevels.