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Biomonitoring of Environmental Status

and Trends (BEST) Program: Field

Procedures for Assessing the Exposure

of Fish to Environmental Contaminants

by

Christopher J. Schmitt1

Vicki S. Blazer2

Gail M. Dethloff3

Donald E. Tillitt1

Timothy S. Gross4

Wade L. Bryant, Jr.5

L. Rod DeWeese6

Stephen B. Smith7

Ronald W. Goede8

Timothy M. Bartish9

and

Timothy J. Kubiak10

1

U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO

2

U.S. Geological Survey, Leetown Science Center, National Fish Health Laboratory, Leetwon WV 3

AScI, c/o U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO

4

U.S. Geological Survey, Florida-Caribbean Science Center, Gainesville, FL

5

U.S. Geological Survey, Office of the Southeastern Regional Hydrologist, Norcross, GA

6

U.S. Geological Survey, Office of the Central Regional Hydrologist, Denver, CO

7

U.S. Geological Survey, Office of the Northeastern Regional Hydrologist, Reston, VA

8

Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Logan, UT

9

U.S. Geological Survey, Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends Program, Fort Collins, CO

10U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Environmental Contaminants, Arlington, VA
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