Organochlorine contaminants in mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) living downstream from a bleached-kraft pulp mill in the Miramichi Estuary, New Brunswick, Canada

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2545-2556

  Couillard, Catherine M ^a   Nellis, Pierre ^a  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bleached kraft mill; Chlorophenol; Fish; Fundulus; Polychlorinated dibenzo p dioxins

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHENOLIC COMPOUND; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

BLEACHED PULP; EFFLUENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTUARIES; IMPURITIES; KRAFT PULP; MARINE BIOLOGY; PAPER AND PULP MILLS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TOXICITY; WATER ANALYSIS;

MARINE POLLUTION;

CHLOROPHENOL; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CANADA; CHLORINATION; EFFLUENT; ESTUARY; FISH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPER INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULP MILL; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0032716311     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620181123     Document Type: Article

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