Chemical contaminants in juvenile gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) from a subsistence harvest in Arctic feeding grounds

Chemosphere

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 555-564

  Tilbury, Karen L ^a   Stein, John E ^a   Krone, Cheryl A ^a   Brownell Jr , Robert L ^b   Blokhin, S A ^c   Bolton, Jennie L ^a   Ernest, Don W ^a  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Pacific Fisheries Research Center   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Baleen whale; Bering Sea; Element; Gray whale; Organochlorine; PCBs

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; IMPURITIES; LIPIDS; SEDIMENTS; TISSUE; TOXIC MATERIALS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BREEDING GROUNDS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

ALUMINUM; LIPID; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TRACE ELEMENT;

FEEDING GROUND; MARINE POLLUTION; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; STOMACH CONTENT; WHALE;

ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; JUVENILE; MALE; MAMMAL; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEA; SEDIMENT; STOMACH CONTENT; TISSUE LEVEL; UNITED STATES; WHALE;

(WEST); BERING SEA;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; ESCHRICHTIIDAE; ESCHRICHTIUS ROBUSTUS; MAMMALIA; MYSTICETI;

EID: 0036118020     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(02)00061-9     Document Type: Article

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