The potential of polychaetes for the bioremediation aquaculture sludge gained more attention in recent years. These organisms can reduce organic matter and nutrients contained several species, improving sustainability these activities. aim this study was to evaluate removal performance Perinereis gualpensis (Jeldes, 1963) being fed with produced by a recirculating system cultivating Atlantic sa...

Heavy metal (HM) pollution in the marine environment has been of concern for decades. The potential impact HMs carried by emerging pollutants such as microplastics (MPs) attracted attention only recent years. In this study, we investigated single and combined chronic toxic effects (growth, burrowing behavior, histopathology) cadmium (Cd, three concentrations low, medium, high) polystyrene (PS) ...

Soft-bottom macrobenthic diversity and community structure were assessed at Mumbai and Jawaharlal Nehru ports during three different periods between 2001 and 2002 (November 2001 post-monsoon 1, April/May 2002 pre-monsoon, and October 2002 post-monsoon 2). A total of 43 macrobenthic invertebrate species belonging to five phyla were recorded. Macrofaunal abundance (PM1 186, PreM 106, and PM2 31 i...