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| Title | Port Townsend Pen-reared Salmon Mortality: Results of Screening Surveys for Toxic Chemicals in Tissues, Sediments, Seawater, and Effluents, October-December 1987. | |||
| Month-Year Published | June 1988 | |||
| Online Availability |
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| Short Description |
Commercial attempts to pen-rear Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound's Port Townsend Bay in 1986 and 1987 experienced cumulative mortality of over 90 percent. Extensive examinations by pathologists at the Battelle Seqium laboratory led to the conclusion the fish died from liver disease caused by chronic exposure to a water-borne toxic chemical. Ecology responded to this potential water quality problem by conducting chemical analyses of salmon tissues, bottom sediments, and seawater samples for Port Townsend Bay, and effluent samples from the Port Townsend Paper pulp mill at Glen Cove and the Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station treatment plant on Indian Island. | |||
| Publication Number | 88-e13 | |||
| Author(s) | Johnson, A. | |||
| Print Availability |
Not maintained in stock. Copy must be made from archive version.
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| Number of pages | 33 pp. | |||
| Keywords | chemical, Chemicals, effluent, fish, mortality, Puget Sound, pulp, results, salmon, sediment, station, survey, tissue, toxic, water | |||
| Subject Waterbodies |
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