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Port Townsend Pen-reared Salmon Mortality: Results of Screening Surveys for Toxic Chemicals in Tissues, Sediments, Seawater, and Effluents, October-December 1987. |
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| 88-e13 | June 1988 |
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Port Townsend Pen-reared Salmon Mortality: Results of Screening Surveys for Toxic Chemicals in Tissues, Sediments, Seawater, and Effluents, October-December 1987. (Number of pages: 34) (Publication Size: 1MB)
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| Author(s) |
Johnson, A. |
| 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. |
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| Keywords |
pulp, mortality, tissue, results, station, Chemicals, toxic chemicals, fish, water, chemical, WRIA 17, sediment, toxic, survey, Puget Sound, salmon, effluent |
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Water Resource Inventory Area 17 Quilcene-Snow |
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