As concerns mount over the human health risks associated with consumption of fish contaminated with persistent organic pollutants, there exists a need to better evaluate fish body burdens without lethally sampling many of the important commercial and sport species of interest. The aim of this study was to investigate two novel methods for estimating organic contaminants in fish that are a conce...

Microplastics are ubiquitous in Earth’s ecosystems and many efforts have begun to understand their distributions. Large rivers, like the Mississippi River, provide a unique system which look at large-scale patterns of microplastic distribution. In this study, we sampled four species widely-distributed fishes from five sites along mainstem Minnesota Louisiana, United States. were found all fish ...

Objective To examine factors influencing decisions to test for COVID-19 among Native Americans on the Flathead Reservation in Montana and Latino community Yakima Valley of Washington state. Methods We conducted 30 key informant interviews with leaders six focus groups members impacting during second year pandemic from May 2021 June 2021. Results Three major themes that impacted testing were ide...

A total of 7,899 stomachs from 40 species, walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus), arrowtooth flounder (Atheresthes stomias), Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis), sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), big skate (Raja binoculata), Bering skate (Bathyraja interrupta), Alaska skate (Bathyraja parmifera), longnose skate (Raja rh...