Radionuclide Contaminant Burdens in Arctic Marine Mammals Harvested During Subsistence Hunting

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Cooper, Lee W., Larsen, I.L., O'Hara, Todd M., Dolvin, Scott, Woshner, Victoria, Cota, Glenn F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2000
• Subjects: 137Cs; contamination; marine mammals; North Slope Borough; radioactivity; radionuclides; Resolute; 108mAg; subsistence hunting; mammifères marins; radioactivité; radionucléides; chasse de subsistence; Arctic; Baleine; Canada; la Baleine; Arctic marine mammals; baleine boréale; Beluga; Beluga*; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63905

We conducted gamma spectrometric analyses on more than 200 arctic marine mammal tissue samples. These samples were primarily provided by subsistence hunters from northern Alaska, with a smaller number of samples from the Resolute region in Canada. The majority of samples (>90%) had detectable lev...