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Persistent Organic Pollutants in Sea Otter Blood and in Blue Mussels from the Aleutian Islands and Southeast Alaska

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1994
End Date
1996

Citation

Jessup, D.A., Johnson, C.K., Estes, J.A., Carlson-Bremer, D., Jarman, W.M., Reese, S.L., Dodd, E., Tinker, M.T., Ziccardi, M.H., and Kenner, M.C., 2021, Persistent organic pollutants in sea otter blood and in blue mussels from the Aleutian Islands and southeast Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P94Z7AO8.

Summary

Two data sets concerning organic contaminants are included here to aid in assessment of the sea otter population collapse in southwest Alaska. One data set consists of levels of organic pollutant compounds found in wild sea otter blood collected from captured animals in 1997 (Jessup et al., 2010). These sea otters were captured from islands in the western Aleutians and from outside the area of population collapse, in southeast Alaska near Cross Sound. Another data set consists of levels of organic pollutant compounds found in blue mussels collected from multiple sites along the Aleutian archipelago and from the Cross Sound area in southeast Alaska in 1994-1996 (Reese et al., 2012). These data support the following publication: Tinker, [...]

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David A Jessup, Christine K Johnson, James A Estes, Daphne Carlson-Bremer, Walter M Jarman, Stacey L Reese, Erin Dodd, M. Tim Tinker, Michael H Ziccardi, Michael C Kenner
Metadata Contact :
Michael C Kenner
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
SDC Data Owner :
Western Ecological Research Center
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U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Purpose

The data set provides contamination levels by persistent organic pollutants in both sea otter blood and in filter feeding prey items as part of an assessment of health in populations across a broad geographic area. This geographic range encompasses sea otter populations which have recently suffered considerable decline as well as some which have not. The data can be used to help evaluate the possible relationship between sea otter health and the population declines as well as other general questions about wild sea otter health parameters.

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