Species- and size-specific variability of mercury concentrations in four commercially important finfish and their prey from the northwest Atlantic

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 734-740

  Staudinger, Michelle D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix); Food web; Goosefish (Lophius americanus); Silver hake (Merluccius bilinearis); Summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus); Total mercury

Indexed keywords

BLUEFISH (POMATOMUS SALTATRIX); FOOD WEBS; GOOSEFISH (LOPHIUS AMERICANUS); SUMMER FLOUNDER (PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS); TOTAL MERCURIES;

ECOLOGY; MERCURY (METAL); SILVER; TISSUE;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; BODY SIZE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FINFISH; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOACCUMULATION; BLUEFISH; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FORAGING; GOOSEFISH; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SILVER HAKE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPRING; SUMMER; SUMMER FLOUNDER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; LINEAR MODELS; MERCURY; MUSCLES; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

LOPHIIDAE; LOPHIUS AMERICANUS; MERLUCCIUS BILINEARIS; PARALICHTHYS; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; POMATOMUS SALTATRIX;

EID: 79954581820     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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