Persistent organic pollutants in outmigrant juvenile chinook salmon from the Lower Columbia Estuary, USA

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 374, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 342-366

  Johnson, Lyndal L ^a   Ylitalo, Gina M ^a   Sloan, Catherine A ^a   Anulacion, Bernadita F ^a   Kagley, Anna N ^a   Arkoosh, Mary R ^a   Lundrigan, Tricia A ^b   Larson, Kim ^c   Siipola, Mark ^c   Collier, Tracy K ^a  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c US Army Corps of Engineers   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinook salmon; Columbia River; DDTs; PAHs; PCBs

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ESTUARIES; FISHERIES; IMPURITIES; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SEDIMENTS;

CHINOOK SALMON; COLUMBIA RIVER; DDT;

WATER POLLUTION;

CHLORPHENOTANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

DDT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FOOD WEB; JUVENILE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PAH; PCB; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESIDENCE TIME; SALMONID;

ARTICLE; ESTUARY; EVALUATION; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SALMON; SEDIMENTATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PESTICIDES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RIVERS; SALMON; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

COLUMBIA ESTUARY; COLUMBIA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE RIVER;

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 33847207729     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.11.051     Document Type: Article

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