Fish community

The Minamata disaster in Japan, when 52 people died in 1952, occurred because fish, which formed the staple diet of the small fishing community, contained abnormally high concentrations of mercury in the form of MeHgSMe. This was found to originate from a local chemical works where Hg salts were used (inefficiently) to catalyse the production of... 

Water fluctuations in Mediterranean rivers seriously affect fish production and droughts put important selective forces on fish communities [73] by reducing population density and species richness [58], Fish also suffer from chemical and organic pollution affecting their physiological abilities [90],... 

Karr, J.R. (1981). Assessment of biotic integrity using fish communities. Eisheries 6, 21-27. 

Wisconsin Human cancer criteria Public water supply Warm water sport fish communities Cold water communities Great Lake communities Nonwater supply Warm water sport fish communities 5 pg/L 5 pg/L 5 pg/L 360 pg/L DNR 1987 DNR 1987... 

Cold water communities Warm water forage and limited forage fish communities and limited aquatic life 110 pg/L 3600 pg/L ... 

Lindestroem L. 2001. Mercury in sediment and fish communities of Lake Vaenem, Sweden recovery from contamination. Ambio 30 538-544. 

Public water supply, Wisconsin Warmwater sport fish communities Coldwater communities Great Lakes communities Saltwater (pg/L)... 

Wong, A.H.K., D.J. McQueen, D.D. Williams, and E. Demers. 1997. Transfer of mercury from benthic invertebrates to fishes in lakes with contrasting fish community structures. Canad. Jour. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 54 1320-1330. 

Marcogliese, D.J., G.W. Esch, and R.V. Dimock, Jr. 1992. Alterations in zooplankton community structure after selenium-induced replacement of a fish community a natural whole-lake experiment. Hydrobiologia... 

Heavy consumers of Irish Sea fish and shellfish in local fishing communities — 250 55-90... 

Wl Human cancer criteria Public Water Supplier Warm water sport fish communities Cold water communities Great Lakes communities Non-Public Water Supplies Warm water sport fish communities Cold water communities Warm water forage and limited fish communities and limited aquatic life Groundwater Enforcement standard Prevention action limit 1.9 mg/L 1.8 mg/L 1.8 mg/L 87 mg/L 31 mg/L 380 mg/L 6p g/L ... 

Warm water sport fish communities Gold water communities Great Lakes communities Non-Water Supply ... 

Detenbeck NE, Devore PW, Niemi GJ, Lima A (1992) Recovery of temperate-stream fish communities Irom disturbance a review of case studies and synthesis of theory. Environ Manag 16 33... 

Kraft mill using 100% chlorine dioxide New and old wood pulp bleaching employing various bleach sequences Coastal fish community Mesocosm and fish biomarker tests High levels of mortality and low embryo quality Elemental chlorine containing bleach sequence, CEHDED was the most toxic Sandstrom, 1994 [25] Tana et ah, 1994 [26]... 

Yohannes, K., Dalton, C. B., Halliday, L., Unicomb, L. E., and Kirk, M. (2002). An outbreak of gastrointestinal illness associated with the consumption of escolar fish. Commun. Dis. Intell. 26,441 45. 

Owens RW, O Gorman R, Eckert TH, Lantry BF (2002) The offshore fish community in southern Lake Ontario, 1972-1998. In Munawar M (ed) The state of Lake Ontario past, present, and future. Backhuys, Leiden... 

Volovik, S.P. (1975). Influence of climatic and anthropogenic factors on the structure and production of pelagic fish communities in the Azov Sea (In Russian). Trudy VNIRO103,107-119. 

Suter GW, Barnthouse LW, Efroymson RA, Jager H. 1999b. Ecological risk assessment in a large river-reservoir 2. Fish community. Environ Toxicol Chem 18 589-598. 

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