Organic Contaminant Residues in Fishes from Nipigon Bay, Lake Superior'

• Main Authors: Klaus L. E. Kaiser, J. Fish, Res Board Can
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1976
• Subjects: Bay Lake; Meunier; Longnose sucker; Meunier rouge
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.404.6038; http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/31/30811.pdf

Three species of fish, caught at various distances from a kraft pulp ai:d paper mill effluent discharge in Nipigon Bay, were analyzed for organic contaminants. Fishes from all sites contained residues of polychlorinated biphenyls and DDE. Most samples were also contaminated with hexachlorobenzene an...