Quantifying Elements in Arctic Grayling and Bull Trout in the South Nahanni River Watershed, Northwest Territories, Using Nonlethal Tissue Samples

• Published in: North American Journal of Fisheries Management
• Main Authors: Anderson, Julie, Scrimgeour, Garry, Palace, Vince, Suitor, Michael, Wilcockson, John
• Other Authors: Fisheries and Oceans Canada Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan (FCSAP), Parks Canada (Nahanni National Park Reserve), NWT Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program (CIMP), Canadian Zinc
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Northwest Territories; South Nahanni River; Arctic grayling; Thymallus arcticus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02755947.2016.1235631; https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02755947.2016.1235631

Abstract Monitoring of contaminants in fish generally involves lethal sampling, but public scrutiny and increased pressure on fisheries have driven the need to develop nonlethal sampling methods. We examined the ability of adipose, anal, and caudal fin tissues to serve as nonlethal surrogates for le...