A survey of metals in tissues of farmed Atlantic and wild Pacific salmon

• Published in: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
• Main Authors: Foran, Jeffery A., Hites, Ronald A., Carpenter, David O., Hamilton, M. Coreen, Mathews‐Amos, Amy, Schwager, Steven J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2004
• Subjects: Keta; Pacific; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1897/04-72; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1897%2F04-72; https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1897/04-72

Abstract Contamination of fish tissues with organic and inorganic contaminants has been a pervasive environmental and public health problem. The present study reports the concentrations of nine metals in tissues of farmed Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) and two species of wild‐caught salmon (chum [...