Elevated mercury and PCB concentrations in Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma) collected near a formerly used defense site on Sivuqaq, Alaska

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Jordan-Ward, Renee, von Hippel, Frank A., Zheng, Guomao, Salamova, Amina, Dillon, Danielle, Gologergen, Jesse, Immingan, Tiffany, Dominguez, Elliott, Miller, Pamela, Carpenter, David, Postlethwait, John H., Byrne, Samuel, Buck, C. Loren
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Lawrence Island; Varden; Northeast Cape; St Lawrence Island; Yupik; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9078153/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35217049; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154067

Environmental pollution causes adverse health effects in many organisms and contributes to health disparities for Arctic communities that depend on subsistence foods, including the Yupik residents of Sivuqaq (St. Lawrence Island), Alaska. Sivuqaq’s proximity to Russia made it a strategic location fo...