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During the media blitz that followed, Patterson urged the public to buy Chicken of the Sea tuna because the Van Camp Sea Food Company s molded steel cans were lead-free. With characteristic bluntness, Patterson lambasted a host of government laboratories from the Environmental Protection Agency and its Bureau of Foods to the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Asked if any other laboratories agreed with his findings, Patterson declared loftily that scientific questions are not determined by majority vote. 

Hall, R.A., E.G. Zook, and G.M. Meaburn. 1978. National Marine Fisheries Service survey of trace elements in the fishery resources. U.S. Dep. Comm. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS SSRF-721. 313 pp. 

Bush, J. and T.B. Grace. 1989. Fish Contaminant Study of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Final Report. National Marine Fisheries Service, Prog. 2-416-R-3, Project II. 102 pp. Avail, from Missouri Dept. Conservation, 1110 South College Ave., Columbia, MO 65201 Cain, B.W. and C.M. Bunck. 1983. Residues of organochlorine compounds in starlings (Stumus vulgaris), 1979. Environ. Monitor. Assess. 3 161-172. 

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This is an overview of the U.S. fishing industry, its anticipated growth and development, the role of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and its concerns regarding the safety of fishery products for human consumption. 

Hawaiian chain. From April 1979 to May of 1981 all kahala passing through the commercial wholesale market were subjected to a radioimmunoassay (RIA) for the detection of ciguatoxin, in a project sponsored by the state of Hawaii, the National Marine Fisheries Service and researchers at the University of Hawaii. Fifteen percent were rejected due to toxicity (40% of those over 18 kg.). 

Ito, B. Uchida, R. 1981, National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Ciguatera Workshop, Honolulu. 

Department of Pharmacology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425 Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI 96744 Department of Biology and Mathematics, College of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, VI 00801 < National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Southeast Fisheries Center, Charleston Laboratory, Charleston, SC 29412... 

Journal series no. 2819 of the Hawaii Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. This investigation was supported by contract no. 03-6-208-35369 from the National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, U. S. Department of Commerce. 

NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Services). (2008). "National Marine Fisheries Services Annual Landings Database." http //www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/stl/commercial/ landings/annual landings.html. Accessed Nov. 5, 2008. 

Shchepkina, A.M. (1980b). The influence of helminths on the tissue lipid content of Black Sea anchovy and bullhead during the annual cycle. Technical Reports National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA 25,49-51. 

Arsenic (Note The atomic absorption spectrophotometric graphite furnace methods for arsenic, lead, mercury, and nickel in this monograph were developed at the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Charleston Laboratory, for the determination of these trace element contaminants in materials derived from fish oil. This method is intended for the quantitation of arsenic, lead, mercury, and nickel in marine oils at levels as low as 0.10 pg/g for arsenic and for lead and as low as 0.50 (xg/g for mercury and for nickel.)... 

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The authors wish to thank Lillian A. Flanagan and Jo Ann M. Lewis for their able assistance in the laboratory. We thank David R. Colby for helpful discussions during the preparation of this paper. The research on which this manuscript is based was supported by an interagency agreement between the Department of Energy and the National Marine Fisheries Service. This manuscript is contribution number 78-53B, Southeast Fisheries Center,... 

National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Beaufort, N.C., USA. Reference to trade names does not imply endorsement by the National Marine Fisheries Service. 

The FWS has the authority to designate land and freshwater species as endangered or threatened and to identify their current habitat or range. The National Marine Fisheries Service has the same authority for marine species. 

Figure 13. Production of biomedical test materials in the Charleston Laboratory of the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service for a joint NMFS-NIH project. Code numbers for steps are explained in text. Small print identities are N2 = nitrogen atmosphere, A = alkali, E = ethanol, D = distill, U = urea, R = reflux, C = cold water, and S = steam. From (96).

We wish to express appreciation to Jeanne Joseph, Bob Ernst, and coworkers of the National Marine Fisheries Service, Charleston, SC, for supplying urea-fractionated menhaden oil esters ... 

Engineers, the National Marine Fishery Service, and the U.S. Coast Guard all have some jurisdiction over the release and cleanup of chemicals found in the environment. In the State of Washington, the Department of Ecology, Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Department of Natural Resources are all charged with various aspects of environmental protection. 

This conversion was calculated using fish consumption data from the National Marine Fisheries Service. 

In the United States, data on Hg concentration in commercial fish are largely available from two sources (1) the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) study, which sampled fish that were intended for human consumption and which were landed in the United States in the early to mid-1970s (Hall et al. 1978) and (2) the U.S. Food and Drag Administration (FDA) sampling conducted in the early 1990s (FDA 1992). Both data bases represent samples of fish collected from landings and markets in various parts of the United States but do not identify the locations at which samples were obtained or sold. The NMFS data were collected more systematically, represent more species, and generally contain considerably more samples for each species than the FDA data. However, the FDA data are about 20 years more recent than the NMFS data. Analysis of species represented in both data bases by at least three samples (n=15) indicates that, in almost all cases, the Hg concentration... 

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