The Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) are heavily dependent on the marine resources for food security, employment, government revenue and economic development, hence the concern about the potential exposure of these resources to pollutants. The main goal of this review was to identify ecotoxicology studies published that were done in PICTs. Four major gaps were identified: i) a quantitative gap, with low number of studies published on the PICTs; ii) a geographic gap, where ecotoxicology studies have unevenly covered the different PICTs; iii) a temporal gap, as no biological effect monitoring study has so far been published for the PICTs; and, iv) a pollutants gap, as all of the PICTs studies focused mainly on environmental monitoring studying on average two types of pollutants (heavy metals and pesticides) per PICT only. We suggest, therefore, the potential risk to the marine environment to be estimated by assessing the fate of pollutants via chemical and biological effect monitoring.

太平洋岛国和地区 (PICTs) 在粮食安全、就业、政府收入和经济发展方面严重依赖海洋资源，因此担心这些资源可能会受到污染物的影响。本综述的主要目的是确定在 PICT 中发表的生态毒理学研究。确定了四个主要差距：i) 数量上的差距，关于 PICT 发表的研究数量很少；ii) 地理上的差距，生态毒理学研究不均衡地涵盖不同的 PICT；iii) 时间上的差距，因为迄今为止尚未针对 PICT 发表任何生物效应监测研究；iv) 污染物差距，因为所有 PICT 研究主要集中在环境监测上，每个 PICT 仅研究平均两种污染物（重金属和杀虫剂）。我们建议，