Temporal distribution of organotins in the Aquatic environment: five years after the 1987 UK retail ban on TBT based antifouling paints

Abstract In 1987 the UK government introduced legislation to control the sale of tributyltin (TBT) based paints. Between 1990–1992, a monitoring programme of waters and surficial sediments from six estuarine river systems was undertaken for TBT and its degradation products; dibutyltin (DBT) and monobutyltin (MBT). Despite the retail ban on tributyltin based antifouling paints for use on vessels

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