Global Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon

By R. Klein, J. Allard, Z. Avnur, T. Nikolcheva, D. Rotstein, A. Carlos, Marie Shea, R. Waters, J. Belknap. Science, 2004

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Metabolomics and fish nutrition: a review in the context of sustainable feed development (2018, background): “Feed formulations from the previous decade incorporated high amounts of FM and FO from pelagic fish strongly impacted by global environmental pollution (Hites et al. 2004).”
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Aquatic food security: insights into challenges and solutions from an analysis of interactions between fisheries, aquaculture, food safety, human health, fish and human welfare, economy and environment (2016, background): “In 2004, concerns were raised about persistent organic pollutants (dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls) accumulating in farmed fish, originating from the dietary fish oil derived from wild fish (Hites et al. 2004).”
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Marketplace substitution of Atlantic salmon for Pacific salmon in Washington State detected by DNA barcoding (2012, background): “Farmed salmon have up to ten-fold higher concentrations of fat soluble organic pollutants such as dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) (Hamilton et al., 2005; Hayward, Wong, & Krynitsky, 2007; Hites et al., 2004a, 2004b).”
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AQUACULTURE AND OCEAN RESOURCES: Raising Tigers of the Sea (2005, background): “(134) shows that farmed salmon feeding on pelagic fish caught in polluted waters, such as the North Sea, have higher contaminant loads than farmed salmon feeding on fish from more pristine waters, such as the Southern and North American coasts.”
Fugitive Salmon: Assessing the Risks of Escaped Fish from Net-Pen Aquaculture (2005, background): “These health benefits must be balanced against health risks from organic contaminants, such as PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) and dioxins, that bioaccumulate to a larger extent in farm salmon than in wild salmon ( Hites et al. 2004 ).”
Consequences of brown bear viewing tourism : A review (2017, background): “The continued consumption of 354 farmed salmon may expose bears to a variety of persistent bioaccumulative 355 contaminants, particularly organochlorines, which have been linked to cancer and 356 abnormal mental development in humans (Hites et al., 2004).”