Organochlorine compounds and aliphatic hydrocarbons in Pacific walrus blubber.

Abstract:

:Blubber samples were collected from 8 male and 19 female Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) taken during a 1991 joint USA/USSR cruise traveling widely through the Bering Sea. Dieldrin was found at a level similar to that reported 10 years earlier; oxychlordane was found at a slightly higher concentration than reported previously (Taylor et aL, 1989). Heptachlor epoxide was detected for the first time and found at a low concentration. An initial testing for alpha-, beta- and gamma-HCH detected concentrations similar to those in other Bering Sea pinnipeds. Mean summation of PCB was 0.45 microg g(-1) wet weight in males and 0.16 microg g(-1) in females; only one sample was > 1 microg g(-1). Traces of aliphatic hydrocarbons were detected in all sampled animals, only pristane (x = 0.48 microg g(-1)) was found in concentrations > 1 microg g(-1). Small sample sizes, a lack of samples from immature animals, and uniformly low concentrations of contaminants precluded meaningful analysis of age-related effects and regional differences.

journal_name

Mar Pollut Bull

authors

Seagars DJ,Garlich-Miller J

doi

10.1016/s0025-326x(00)00233-2

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-01-01 00:00:00

pages

122-31

issue

1-6

eissn

0025-326X

issn

1879-3363

pii

S0025-326X(00)00233-2

journal_volume

43

pub_type

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