Shellfish are the first organisms to show the effects of marine pollution. Twenty years ago, researchers in Europe and America discovered that TBT disrupts marine organisms 'sexual development, and is therefore a highly destructive environmental hormone.
貝類常是海洋污染的第一波受害者，二十年前，歐美就發現三丁基錫干擾海洋生物的性別，是一種破壞力極高的「環境荷爾蒙」。