Harbor seals ( Phoca vitulina) in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington State, USA, reveal a combination of local and global polychlorinated biphenyl, dioxin, and furan signals

• Published in: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
• Main Authors: Ross, Peter S., Jeffries, Steven J., Yunker, Mark B., Addison, Richard F., Ikonomou, Michael G., Calambokidis, John C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2004
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Queen Charlotte; harbor seal; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1897/03-85; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1897%2F03-85; https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1897/03-85

Abstract The harbor seal ( Phoca vitulina ) can serve as a useful indicator of food web contamination by persistent organic pollutants (POPs) because of its high trophic level, wide distribution in temperate coastal waters of the Northern Hemisphere, and relative ease of capture. In 1996 through 199...