Persistent organochlorine contaminants in ringed seals ( Phoca hispida) from the Kara Sea, Russian Arctic

• Published in: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
• Main Authors: Nakata, Haruhiko, Tanabe, Shinsuke, Tatsukawa, Ryo, Koyama, Yasuhiro, Miyazaki, Nobuyuki, Belikov, Stanislav, Boltunov, Andrei
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1998
• Subjects: Kara Sea; Phoca hispida
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/etc.5620170915; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fetc.5620170915; https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/etc.5620170915

Abstract Ringed seals collected from the KaraSea in the Russian Arctic during 1995 were analyzed for persistent organochlorines (OCs) such as DDTs, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), chlordane compounds (CHLs), hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs), and hexachlorobenzene to understand the present status of c...