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| Salmon packed with pollutants |
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| September 2003 |
September 18, 2003 - 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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References
- Krümmel, E. M. et al. Delivery of pollutants by spawning salmon.
Nature, 425, 255 - 256, (2003). |Article|
Source: Nature, September 18, 2003
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