Volume 60 • Issue 8 * August 2010 ELSEVIER The International Journal for Marine Environmental Scientísts, Engineers, Administrators, Politicians and Lawyers ISSN 0025-326X The International Journal for Marine Environmental Scientists, Engineers, Administrators, Politicians and Lawyers. Volume 60 Issue 8 August 2010 Contents Editorial Problems associated with the 'one-out, all-out' principie, when using múltiple ecosystem components in assessing the ecological status of marine waters Á. Borja and J.G. Rodríguez News Arctic freshwater cycle intensifies • Climate changes in the Atlantic affect drought in África • Industry fishing for profits, not predators Fish appear to be healthy after fly ash spill • Deep water nutrients key to mid-ocean algas growth • Oil spill reshapes sweeping new study of oyster reefs High levéis of toxic heavy metáis found in whales • Simple method for analyzing oil-contaminated sediments • Tsunami prediction system success El Niño switches to La Niña News-in-Brief China • Zanzíbar • Mozambique • Kenya • World Viewpoint On the potential for cfimate change impacts on marine anthropogenic radioactivíty in the Arctic regions M. Karcher, I. Harms, W.J.F. Standríng, M. Dowdall and P. Strand 1143 1147 1148 1149 1150 1150 1151 Reporte Brominated fíame retardants and organochlorine contaminants in winter flounder, harp and hooded seáis, and North Atlantic right whales from the Northwest Atlantic Ocean E.W. Montie, fí.J. Letcher, C.M. Reddy, M.J. Moore, B. Rubinstein and M.E. Hahn Simulating the influence of physicochemical parameters on subsurface oil on beaches: Preliminary results A.M. Bernabeu, D. Rey, A. Lago and F. Vilas Chemical specíation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments: Partitioning and extraction of humic substances S. Orecchio and M.R. Manníno Bacterial accumulation by the Demospongiae Hymeniacidon perlevis: A tool for the bioremediation of polluted seawater C. Longo, G. Corriero, M. Licciano and L. Stabili Characteristics of phosphate adsorption onto granulated coal ash in seawater S. Asaoka and T. Yamamoto Detection and temporal variation of ^Co in the digestivo glands of the common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, in the East China Sea T. Monta, S. Otosaka, K. Fujimoto, K. Nishiuchi, K. Kimoto, H. Yamada, H. Kasai, M. Minakawa and K. Yoshida Assessing the responses of coastal cetaceans to the construction of offshore wind turbines P.M. Thompson, D. Lusseau, T. Barton, D. Simmons, J. Rusin and H. Baitey The distribution of acid-volatile sulfide and simultaneously extracted metáis in sediments from a mangrove forest and adjacent mudflat in Zhangjiang Estuary, China L. Jingchun, Y. Chongling, K.L. Spencer, Z. Ruifeng and L. Haoliang Diffusional losses of amended anaerobio electrón acceptors in sediment field microcosms M. Mittal and K.J. Rockne ... Antifouling bJocídes in discarded marine paint particles R. Parks, M. Donnier-Marechal, P.E. Frickers, A. Turner and J.W. fíeadman Trends and drivers of marine debris on the Atlantic coast of the United States 1997-2007 C.A. Ríbic, S.B. Sheavly, D.J. Rugg and E.S. Erdmann Reconstruction of historical nutrient levéis in Korean and Japanese coastal áreas based on dinoflagellate cyst assemblages H.H. Shín, K. Mízushima, S.J. Oh, J.S. Park, I.H. Non, M. Iwataki, K. Matsuoka and Y.H. Yoon Multi-source water pollution in a highly anthropized wetland system associated with the estuary of Huelva (SW Spain) C. Barba-Brioso, J.C. Fernández-Caliani, A. Miras, J. Cornejo and E. Galán Estimation of enterococci input from bathers and animáis on a recreational beach using camera ¡mages J.D. Wang, H.M. Soio-Gabríele, A.M. Abdelzaher and LE. Fleming Human impacts on large benthic foraminifers near a densely populated área of Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands Y. Osawa, K. Fujita, Y. Umezawa, H. Kayanne, Y. /de, T. Nagaoka, T. Miyajima and H. Yamano 1160 1170 1175 1182 1188 1193 1200 1209 1217 1226 1231 1243 1259 1270 1279 (Contents continuad on inside back cover) INDEXED/ABSTRACTED !N: Current Contents; EMBiology; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Science, BIOSIS Datábase, Petroleum Abstraéis, Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts JASFA), Oceanic Abstracts, Pollution Abstracts,Toxicology Abstracts, Ecology, Life Sciences Collection Geo Abstracts, Environmental Abstracts, Fish & Fisheries worldwide. Also covered in the abstract and citation datábase SCOPUS®. Full texl available on Science Direct®. ScienceDirect ELSEVIER makes sense. 0025-326X(201008)60:8;1-T Printed by Henry Ling Ltd, The Dorset Press, Dorchester, UK ISSN 0025-326X