Mercury Exposure Analyses Amongst Dene and Métis Communities of the Northwest Territories

• Main Author: Fung, Leicester
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2018
• Subjects: Public Health; Toxicology; Bioaccessibility; Bioavailability; Mercury; Biomonitoring; Northwest Territories; Hay River; Fort Providence; Deline; Kakisa
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14333

Background: Fish is an important food source for many Indigenous communities within the Dehcho and Sahtú regions of Northwest Territories (NWT). However, environmental toxicants, such as mercury (Hg), can bioaccumulate and biomagnify to reach detectable levels in fish, particularly among predatory f...