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This guide does not set out to be comprehensive but is intended to list resources for further reading which may be useful as a starting point. Email flora@gi.alaska.edu with comments or suggestions.
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Science for Alaska Lecture Series

Science for Alaska Lecture Series

 

Websites

Fish Consumption Guidelines for Alaskans

http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/eh/fish/default.htm#guidelines

 

Alaska Department of Fish & Game

http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/

 

Occurrence of antibiotics in water from fish hatcheries

http://ks.water.usgs.gov/pubs/fact-sheets/fs.120-02.html

 

National Lake Fish Tissue Study

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/techguidance/study/index.cfm

 

Effects of marine oil pollution on economy and human health

http://oils.gpa.unep.org/facts/economy-health.htm

 

Books

Silent snow : the slow poisoning of the Arctic / Marla Cone. New York : Grove Press, 2005.

 

Pacific Salmon environmental and life history models : advancing science for sustainable salmon in the future / edited by E. Eric Knudsen, J. Hal Michael.  Bethesda, Md. : American Fisheries Society, 2009.

 

Four fish : the future of the last wild food / Paul Greenberg. New York : Penguin Press, 2010.

 

An introduction to pollution science. / Roy M. Harrison, editor. Cambridge, UK : Royal Society of Chemistry, 2006.

 

Assessment of fish habitat, water quality, and selected contaminants in streambed sediments in Noyes Slough, Fairbanks, Alaska, 2001-2002 / Ben W. Kennedy et al.  Anchorage, Alaska : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2004.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri034328/pdf/wrir034328.pdf

The toxicology of fishes / edited by Richard T. Di Giulio, David E. Hinton. Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2008.

 

Handbook of ecotoxicology (2nd ed.) / edited by David J. Hoffman et al. Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2002.

 

The national survey of mercury concentrations in fish: data base summary 1990-1995.

Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Standards and Applied Science Division, 1999.

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/outreach/upload/2000_10_30_fish_mercurydata.pdf

 

Articles

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water. (2009). EPA releases report on fish contamination in U.S. lakes and reservoirs.

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/fishshellfish/techguidance/study/upload/2009_9_30_fish_study_data_factsheet.pdf

 

Raloff, J. (2006). Macho Moms: perchlorate pollutant masculinizes fish. Science News, 170 (7), 99-100.

Peterson, Charles H.; Rice, Stanley D.; Short, Jeffrey W.; Esler, Daniel; Bodkin, James L; Ballachey, Brenda E.; Irons, David B. (2003). Long-term ecosystem response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Science, 302 (5653), 2082-2086.

 

West, Patrick C. (1992). Health concerns for fish-eating tribes? EPA Journal, 18 (1), 15-16.

 

Pyhtila, Holly (2008). Plastics, pesticides, and pills are contaminating our drinking supply.  Earth Island Journal, 23 (3), 45-48.

 

Arnold, Scott M. et al. (2005) Human biomonitoring to optimize fish consumption advice: reducing uncertainty when evaluating benefits and risks. American Journal of Public Health, 95 (3), 393-397.

 

Hardell, S, et al. (2010). Levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and three organochlorine pesticides in fish from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. PLOS ONE  5 (8), e12396.

 

Letcher, R.J., et al. (2010). Exposure and effects assessment of persistent organohalogen contaminants in arctic wildlife and fish. Science of the Total Environment 408 (15) S1, 2995-3043.

 

Weber, J., et al. (2010). Endosulfan, a global pesticide: a review of its fate in the environment and occurrence in the Arctic. Science of the Total Environment 408 (15) S1, 2966-2984.

 

Wania, F., MacKay, D. (1993). Global fractionation and cold condensation of low volatility organochlorine compounds in polar regions. Ambio 22 (1) 10-18.

 

Fisk, A.T., Hobson, K.A., Norstrom, R.J. (2001). Influence of chemical and biological factors on trophic transfer of persistent organic pollutants in the northwater polynya marine food web. Environmental Science and Technology 35 (4) 732-738.

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