Otolith microchemistry applied to environmental effects monitoring in the Keno Hill mining district
The overall goal of this project was to assess, in three stages, the use of fish otolith microchemistry as a potentially new monitoring tool to be applied around Yukon mine sites. High quality environmental assessments are critical to sound land and water use management as part of all mining develop...
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ftarcabc:oai:arcabc.ca:yukonu_79 2024-06-02T08:00:12+00:00 Otolith microchemistry applied to environmental effects monitoring in the Keno Hill mining district Halden, Norman (Author) Janin, Amelie (Author) Mackenzie-Grieve, Jody (Author) Yang, Panseok (Author) Song, Zhe (Author) Petkovich, David (Author) First Nation of Na-cho Nyak Dun (Author) 2015 https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/yukonu%3A79 unknown Yukon Research Centre, Yukon College. https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/yukonu%3A79 yukonu:79 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ publisher Arctic grayling Slimy sculpin reports Text 2015 ftarcabc 2024-05-06T00:30:44Z The overall goal of this project was to assess, in three stages, the use of fish otolith microchemistry as a potentially new monitoring tool to be applied around Yukon mine sites. High quality environmental assessments are critical to sound land and water use management as part of all mining development. Improvement of the environmental assessment and prediction of potential impact of land use activities rely on the development of scientific tools and techniques. Fish otolith chemistry integrates information on contaminant exposure and life history of both individual fish and populations. This technique affords a unique opportunity: otoliths consist of a calcium carbonate structure in the inner ear of fish deposited in daily to annual increments. They have been used to determine age and life history events of fish and fish populations. As otoliths are metabolically stable, the contaminant levels within their annular structure can provide a temporal record of exposure of the fish to trace metals and can be used to get baseline data information required for environmental assessments and reconstruct historical exposure for the further protection of aquatic wildlife. As new mining projects are developing in the Yukon, it is believed that Yukon would benefit in establishing a fish otolith chemistry technique and database with the local population, which in turn gave rise to this project. Peer reviewed Report Arctic grayling Arctic Keno Hill Slimy sculpin Yukon Arca (BC's Digital Treasures) Arctic Keno Hill ENVELOPE(-135.307,-135.307,63.908,63.908) Yukon |
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The overall goal of this project was to assess, in three stages, the use of fish otolith microchemistry as a potentially new monitoring tool to be applied around Yukon mine sites. High quality environmental assessments are critical to sound land and water use management as part of all mining development. Improvement of the environmental assessment and prediction of potential impact of land use activities rely on the development of scientific tools and techniques. Fish otolith chemistry integrates information on contaminant exposure and life history of both individual fish and populations. This technique affords a unique opportunity: otoliths consist of a calcium carbonate structure in the inner ear of fish deposited in daily to annual increments. They have been used to determine age and life history events of fish and fish populations. As otoliths are metabolically stable, the contaminant levels within their annular structure can provide a temporal record of exposure of the fish to trace metals and can be used to get baseline data information required for environmental assessments and reconstruct historical exposure for the further protection of aquatic wildlife. As new mining projects are developing in the Yukon, it is believed that Yukon would benefit in establishing a fish otolith chemistry technique and database with the local population, which in turn gave rise to this project. Peer reviewed |
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Halden, Norman (Author) Janin, Amelie (Author) Mackenzie-Grieve, Jody (Author) Yang, Panseok (Author) Song, Zhe (Author) Petkovich, David (Author) First Nation of Na-cho Nyak Dun (Author) |
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Otolith microchemistry applied to environmental effects monitoring in the Keno Hill mining district |
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Otolith microchemistry applied to environmental effects monitoring in the Keno Hill mining district |
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Otolith microchemistry applied to environmental effects monitoring in the Keno Hill mining district |
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Otolith microchemistry applied to environmental effects monitoring in the Keno Hill mining district |
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Otolith microchemistry applied to environmental effects monitoring in the Keno Hill mining district |
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otolith microchemistry applied to environmental effects monitoring in the keno hill mining district |
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Arctic grayling Arctic Keno Hill Slimy sculpin Yukon |
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Arctic grayling Arctic Keno Hill Slimy sculpin Yukon |
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