Principal Investigator:Chételat, John Licensed Year(s):2014
2013
Summary:
Recent increases in fish mercury concentrations in the Mackenzie River basin are an environmental and human health concern. In several cases, new fish consumption advisories have been released by the NWT Health and Social Services for some lakes in the NWT. It remains unclear what processes are driving these trends in metal bioaccumulation. Two dominant hypotheses are: 1) new sources of long-range...