Fish Field and Laboratory Methods for Evaluating the Biological Integrity of Surface Waters.

摘要

The Bioassessment and Ecotoxicology Branch, Ecological Monitoring Research Division, Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory-Cincinnati is responsible for the development, evaluation, and standardization of methods for the collection of biological field and laboratory data by EPA regional, enforcement, and research programs engaged in inland, estuarine, and marine water quality and permit compliance monitoring, and status and/or trends monitoring for the effects of impacts on aquatic organisms, including the phytoplankton, zooplankton, periphyton, macrophyton, macro-invertebrates, and fish. The program addresses methods for sample collection; sample preparation; organism identification and enumeration; the measurement of biomass and metabolic rates; the bioaccumulation and pathology of toxic substances; bioassay; biomarkers; the computerization, analysis, and interpretation of biological data; and ecological assessments. This manual contains field and laboratory fish methods for evaluating the health and biological integrity of fresh, estuarine, and marine waters.