Identification of Arctic Food Fish Species for Anthropogenic Contaminant Testing Using Geography and Genetics

• Published in: Foods
• Main Authors: Virginia K. Walker, Pranab Das, Peiwen Li, Stephen C. Lougheed, Kristy Moniz, Stephan Schott, James Qitsualik, Iris Koch
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Arctic char; lake trout; lake whitefish; mercury; arsenic; PCBs; genomic analysis; Arctic; Canada; Fish Lake; King William Island; Nunavut; William Island; Climate change; inuit; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9121824

The identification of food fish bearing anthropogenic contaminants is one of many priorities for Indigenous peoples living in the Arctic. Mercury (Hg), arsenic (As), and persistent organic pollutants including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are of concern, and these are reported, in some cases for...