Contaminants in white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) from the upper Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 479-490

  Macdonald, Donald D ^a   Ikonomou, Michael G ^b   Rantalaine, Anna Lea ^b   Rogers, I Hal ^b   Sutherland, David ^c   Van Oostdam, Jay ^c  

^a MacDonald Environ Sciences Ltd   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c Ministry of Environment British Columbia   (Canada)

Author keywords

Metals; PCBs; PCDDs; PCDFs; Sturgeon

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; METAL DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FISH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACIPENSER TRANSMONTANUS;

EID: 0030951768     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1997)016<0479:CIWSAT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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