Detection of high concentrations of 137Cs in Walleye pollock collected in the Sea of Japan

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1293-1300

  Morita, Takami ^a   Fujimoto, Ken ^a   Minamisako, Yoko ^a   Yoshida, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOMONITORING; CESIUM ISOTOPE; DETECTION METHOD; FISH; HALF LIFE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; JAPAN; LIVER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; MUSCLE; OVARY; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; SEA; TESTIS; WALLEYE POLLOCK;

ANIMALS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; GADIFORMES; JAPAN; OCEANS AND SEAS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 34547137911     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

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