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Main Title Toxic Effects of Cadmium on Three Generations of Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis).
Author Benoit, D. A. ; Leonard, E. N. ; Christensen, G. M. ; Fiandt., J. T. ;
CORP Author Environmental Research Lab.-Duluth, Minn.
Year Published 1976
Report Number EPA/600/J-76/032;
Stock Number PB-265 315
Additional Subjects Toxicity ; Fishes ; Cadmium ; Trout ; Tissues(Biology) ; Fresh water fishes ; Exposure ; Toxic tolerances ; Lake Superior ; Bioassay ; Growth ; Reproduction(Biology) ; Larvae ; Physiological effects ; Toxicology ; Methodology ; Life cycles ; Experimental data ; Tissues(Biology) ; Water pollution effects(Animals) ; Toxic substances ; Salvelinus fontinalis ; Maximum permissible exposure level ; Reprints ; Bioaccumulation
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NTIS  PB-265 315 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Three generations of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) were exposed to several concentrations of total cadmium. Significant numbers of first- and second-generation adult males died during spawning at 3.4 micrograms Cd/liter. This concentration also significantly retarded growth of juvenile second- and third-generation offspring. The maximum acceptable toxicant concentration (MATC) for brook trout exposed to cadmium in Lake Superior water (hardness 44 mg/liter as CaCO3, pH 7-8) lies between 1.7 and 3.4 micrograms Cd/liter. Cadmium-residue analyses of kidney, liver, gill, gonad, spleen, muscle, and red blood cells from first- and second-generation trout indicated that kidney, liver, and gill tissue accumulated the greatest amounts of cadmium at each water exposure concentration. No significant increases in cadmium were measured in edible muscle at any of the cadmium water concentrations tested. Cadmium residues in kidney, liver, and gill tissue of fish from all exposure concentrations reached equilibrium (micrograms Cd/g tissue) in both first- and second-generation trout after 20 weeks.