Abstract
The North Carolina Division of Water Quality (NCDWQ) has collected data on mercury concentrations in fish tissue from numerous waterbodies since 1990. Reported mercury levels are highly variable; fish tissue concentrations often vary 75-fold or more within individual species across the state, and 10-fold to 100-fold among samples within and between adjacent counties. We discuss the construction and preliminary analysis of a comprehensive statewide database combining NCDWQ fish tissue mercury concentrations with all other available and relevant biotic and abiotic environmental variables.
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Abstracts of presentations given in Session 4 of the UCOWR conference.