Polychlorinated biphenyl profiles in ringed seals (Pusa Hispida) reveal historical contamination by a military radar station in Labrador, Canada

• Published in: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
• Main Authors: Brown, Tanya M., Fisk, Aaron T., Helbing, Caren C., Reimer, Ken J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2014
• Subjects: Contaminated site; Marine mammal; Point source; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Ringed seal; Saglek Labrador; Arctic; Canada; Saglek Bay; Pusa hispida; ringed seal
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/367; https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.2468

Significant amounts of soil contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were discovered at a military radar station in Saglek Bay, Labrador, Canada, in 1996. Subsequent work showed elevated PCB concentrations in local marine sediments, in the benthic-associated food web, and in some ringed se...