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"New" POPs in marine mammals in Nordic Arctic and NE Atlantic areas during three decades
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Abstract [en]

Marine mammals hold a special position in the hearts of people inhabiting Nordic Arctic areas and in coastal communities around the North Atlantic Ocean as they are an essential part of the diet and traditional life-style. However, marine mammals are in a particularly vulnerable position as regards environmental pollutants, because of the large fat stores in their bodies which serve as a “magnet” to a large number of persistent and toxic pollutants.     A Nordic Council of Ministers supported collaboration between Norway, Denmark/Greenland, Faroe Island, Iceland and Sweden set out to look for possible trends in “new” contaminants in marine mammals in Nordic Arctic waters. The “new” contaminants in focus are the brominated flame retardants including the PBDEs, methoxylated PBDEs, perfluorinated compounds including the PFOS family, and polychlorinated naphthalenes. In addition, a subset of the samples was analysed for brominated dioxins and dibenzofurans. The marine mammals studied were fin whale, minke whale, pilot whale, white-sided dolphins, harbour porpoise, ringed seal and hooded seal. The study aims at giving a wide scope of the presence of  these ”new” contaminants in marine mammals in recent time and going back to the 1980s using samples from specimen banks.

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Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers , 2011. , p. 40
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TemaNord, ISSN 0908-6692 ; 2011:564
Keywords [fi]
meriympäristö, kemikaalit, ympäristö
Keywords [da]
Havmiljø, Kemikalier, Miljø
Keywords [is]
Umhverfi sjávar, Efni, Umhverfi
Keywords [no]
Havmiljø, Kjemikalier, Miljø
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Marine environment; Chemicals; Environment
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URN: urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-2450DOI: 10.6027/TN2011-564ISBN: 978-92-893-2282-9 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:norden-2450DiVA, id: diva2:702835
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