The seas worldwide are threatened by a “new” source of pollution. Munitions dumped into the seas worldwide will corrode and start to leak. Their impacts on the environment and on human health are now more than ever subject of scientific research. Bivalves are a first choice bioindicator and their importance is demonstrated in numerous worldwide studies as well as their integration in important monitoring programs. In this review, the use of mussels in context with marine pollutants in recent years is pointed out in general but with a special focus on dumped conventional and chemical munitions. Monitoring experiments with mussels are able to generate large data sets, which should be mandatory included in decision support tools to increase their weight of evidence. The usefulness of mussels with regard to dumped munitions has clearly been documented in recent years and the further application of this important biomonitoring system is strongly recommended.

全球海洋正受到“新”污染源的威胁。倾倒入全球海洋的弹药将腐蚀并开始泄漏。它们对环境和人类健康的影响现在比以往任何时候都成为科学研究的主题。双壳类动物是首选生物指示剂，其重要性已在众多全球研究中得到证明，并且已融入重要的监测计划中。在这篇综述中，总体上指出了近年来贻贝与海洋污染物一起使用的情况，但特别侧重于倾倒的常规和化学弹药。贻贝的监测实验能够生成大量数据集，应将其强制性包含在决策支持工具中以增加其证据权重。