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Availability and concentration of pollutants from American Falls Reservoir sediments to forage and predaceous fishes Item Info
- Title:
- Availability and concentration of pollutants from American Falls Reservoir sediments to forage and predaceous fishes
- Authors:
- Johnson, Donald W.; Kent, James C.; Campbell, Donald K.
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1977-03
- Description:
- An earlier report by the Idaho Health Department and Idaho Fish and Game Department indicated that American Falls Reservoir was polluted by mercury levels which constituted a threat to the ecosystem and public health (1,2). These findings resulted in a news release (Idaho State Journal, January 19, 1972) advising healthy adults not to eat more than one-half pound per week of fish from American Falls Reservoir and that pregnant women and children should completely avoid eating reservoir fishes. Subsequently the presence of dangerous levels of mercury in yellow perch (Perea flavescens), carp (Cyprinus carpio), and black bullhead (Ictalurus melas) was confirmed (3,4). The presence in American Falls Reservoir and resulting environmental threat of pollutants other than mercury had not been investigated.
- Subjects:
- mercury predation fish water pollution
- Location:
- American Falls Reservoir
- Latitude:
- 42.99
- Longitude:
- -112.69
- Collection:
- IWRRI
- IWRRI number:
- 197607
- Rights:
- In copyright, educational use permitted. Educational use includes non-commercial reproduction of text and images in materials for teaching and research purposes. For other contexts beyond fair use, including digital reproduction, please contact the University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu. The University of Idaho Library is not liable for any violations of the law by users.
- Publisher:
- University of Idaho
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Idaho
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Cataloger:
- wbv
- Date Digitized:
- 2012
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Availability and concentration of pollutants from American Falls Reservoir sediments to forage and predaceous fishes", Idaho Waters Digital Library, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/iwdl/items/iwdl-johnson_1976.html
Rights
- Rights:
- In copyright, educational use permitted. Educational use includes non-commercial reproduction of text and images in materials for teaching and research purposes. For other contexts beyond fair use, including digital reproduction, please contact the University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu. The University of Idaho Library is not liable for any violations of the law by users.
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/