Acute toxicities to larval rainbow trout of representative compounds detected in Great Lakes fish
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
By: Carol Cotant Edsall
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Abstract
In recent years the National Fisheries Research Center-Great Lakes has ranked the potential hazard to fish and invertebrates of various chemical compounds detected in two Great Lakes fishes-- lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, and walleye, Stizostedion vitreum vitreum (Hesselberg and Seelye 1982). This hazard assessment has included the identification of the potential sources of the compounds, determination of the occurrence and abundance of the compounds in Great Lakes fish, and the determination of acute toxicities of representative compounds of 19 chemical classes (Passino and Smith 1987a). In further studies Smith et al. (1988) focused on 6 of the 19 classes of compounds using the zooplankter Daphnia pulex as the test organism. They ranked the six classes as follows (in decreasing order of toxicity): polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), alkyl halides, nitrogen-containing compounds, cyclic alkanes, heterocyclic nitrogen compounds, and silicon-containing compounds.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Acute toxicities to larval rainbow trout of representative compounds detected in Great Lakes fish |
| Series title | Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology |
| DOI | 10.1007/BF01691933 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year Published | 1991 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Publisher location | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Contributing office(s) | Great Lakes Science Center |
| Description | 6 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology |
| First page | 173 |
| Last page | 178 |
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