Relationship between trophic level and total mercury concentrations in 5 Steller sea lion prey species

• Main Authors: Johnson, Gabrielle, Rea, Lorrie, Castellini, J. Margaret, Loomis, Todd, O'Hara, Todd
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Atka; Pacific; Sinclair; Kamchatka; Theragra chalcogramma; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/3461

Total mercury concentrations [THg] were measured in 5 Steller sea lion finfish prey species collected in the eastern Aleutian Islands to determine if the amount and/or variation in mercury in select prey could explain the wide range of [THg] in sea lion pup hair and blood (Castellini et al. 2012, Re...