Mercurial Tuna: Study Explores Sources of Mercury to Ocean Fish
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 11:35
in Earth & Climate
With concern over mercury contamination of tuna on the rise and growing information about the health effects of eating contaminated fish, scientists would like to know exactly where the pollutant is coming from and how it's getting into open-ocean fish species.
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