Have wild pink salmon and their habitat recovered from persistent Exxon Valdez oil contamination
By: [principal authors] Mark G. Carls, Ron A. Heintz, Stanley D. Rice.
Contributors: Heintz, Ron A.; Rice, Stanley D.; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.
Publisher: EVOS Trustee Council
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Anchorage, Alaska
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Pink salmon -- Effect of oil spills on -- Alaska -- Prince William Sound; Pink salmon -- Growth; Pink salmon -- Habitat -- Alaska -- Prince William Sound; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons -- Physiological effect; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Alaska, 1989 -- Environmental aspects; Prince William Sound (Alaska) -- Environmental conditions
Other titles: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Project final report
Description: Results show that drainage of groundwater from beaches into surface and subsurface stream water provides a mechanism for contaminant exchange providing evidence that pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) spawning habitat in Prince William Sound was contaminated by Exxon Valdez oil. Low levels of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) from the Exxon Valdez remain in two of six previously heavily oiled streams examined leading to the opinion that most spawning habitat has recovered or is recovering. Exposure of pink salmon embryos from five brood years to similar levels of hydrocarbons showed a variety of lethal and sublethal responses.
Notes: Authors affiliated with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Auke Bay Laboratory.

"Restoration Project 00454."

"November 2003."

Includes bibliographical references.

Final report.

Available also on the Internet.

Funded by Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council

This item was harvested from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council web site: http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/Store/Final_Reports/255.pdf  in September 2006 for the Alaska State Publications Program; remote access available via StaticURL.
Table of contents: title: Mechanism for transport of oil-contaminated groundwater into pink salmon redds -- Mark G. Carls, Robert E. Thomas, Michael R. Lilly, and Stanley D. Rice; title: Pink salmon spawning habitat is recovering a decade after the Exxon Valdez oil spill -- Mark G. Carls, Stanley D. Rice, Gary D. Marty, and Diane Naydan; title: Cytochrome P4501A induction in oil-exposed pink salmon embryos predicts reduced survival potential -- M.G. Carls, R.A. Heintz, G.D. Marty, and S.D. Rice; title: Monitoring polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in aqueous environments with passive low-density polyethylene membrane devices-- Mark G. Carls, Larry G. Holland, Jeffrey W. Short, Ron A. Heintz, and Stanley D. Rice.