Radioactive contamination in the Barents Sea, past and present status, uptake of radinuclides in fish and its impact on fisheries

• Main Author: Føyn, Lars
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ICES 1994
• Subjects: radioactivity; radioaktivitet; monitoring; overvåkning; VDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Fisheries science: 920::Resource biology: 921; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Oceanography: 452; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Marine biology: 497; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Ecotoxicology: 489; Barents Sea; Kara Sea; Komsomolets; Novaya Zemlya
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/105269

During the atmospheric nuclear bomb test at the end of the fifties and in the beginning of the sixties the Institute of Marine Research, IMR, monitored the radioactive contamination in commercial landed fish from the Barents Sea. There were indications of an immediate response in uptake of radionucl...