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Mercury Dynamics In Sediments And The Foodweb Of The Detroit River (Ontario, Michigan)., Magdalena. Scarlat

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Mercury contamination is still an important issue, although the major input from riverine industries was stopped in the early 1970s. Bottom sediment and biological samples were collected in 2000 and sediment cores in 2001 in order to assess and continue monitoring mercury in the Detroit River aquatic system. Analyses of mercury in fish samples revealed mercury's preference to accumulate in dorsal muscle tissue, which provides the best measure of the mercury burden in the whole body and is also the easiest tissue to collect. Mercury levels in fat tissue were below detection limit, which prove that mercury does not behave …