Variations in Northern Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma malma) total mercury concentrations from the northwestern Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Tran, Lilian
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2014
• Subjects: Mercury; Dolly Varden; Canadian Arctic; Biology; Arctic; Babbage River; Canada; Northwest Territories; Varden; Yukon; Human health
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/8910

Mercury (Hg) is a ubiquitous contaminant with harmful impacts on the aquatic ecosystem as well as human health. Studies to date of the bioaccumulative effects of Hg on northern fishes have focussed on all but one of the key species consumed by humans. The exception is the Northern Dolly Varden (Salv...