Date: 2003-09-01
Source: Nature
Link: http://www.nature.com/nsu/030915/030915-7.html


Salmon packed with pollutants, Decaying fish dump PCBs in Alaska's lakes.


Salmon travelling to Alaska's lakes to spawn are carrying large doses of industrial pollutants with them, a study has shown¹.
Environmentalists fear that the accumulation of these compounds, called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), could have harmful consequences for the region's top carnivores: bears, eagles - and humans.

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