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Optimizing fish and stream-water mercury metrics for calculation of fish bioaccumulation factors

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Abstract

Mercury (Hg) bioaccumulation factors (BAFs; ratios of Hg in fish [Hgfish] and water[Hgwater]) are used to develop Total Maximum Daily Load and water quality criteria for Hg-impaired waters. Protection of wildlife and human health depends directly on the accuracy of site-specific estimates of Hgfish and Hgwater and the predictability of the relation between these parameters.

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Citation

Bradley, Paul; Murray, Karen Riva; Scudder Elkenberry, Barbara C.; Knightes, Christopher D.; Journey, Celeste A.; Brigham, Mark A. 2016. Optimizing fish and stream-water mercury metrics for calculation of fish bioaccumulation factors. In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical  Report  SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 1 p.
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