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Main Title Survival and immune response of Coho salmon exposed to copper /
Author Stevens, Donald G., $c (Of the United States Environmental Protection Agency),
CORP Author Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., Oreg. Western Fish Toxicology Station.
Publisher Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Corvallis Environmental Research Laboratory, Western Fish Toxicology Station,
Year Published 1977
Report Number EPA-600/3-77-031
Stock Number 22161
OCLC Number 03114539
ISBN pbk.
Subjects Coho salmon ; Copper--Toxicology
Additional Subjects Copper ; Toxic tolerances ; Stress(Physiology) ; Salmon ; Exposure ; Immunization ; Bacteria ; Animal diseases ; Mortality ; Concentration(Composition) ; Bioassay ; Survival ; Adaptation ; Oncorhynchus kisutch
Internet Access
Description Access URL
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EHBD  EPA-600/3-77-031 CEMM/ACESD Library/Narragansett,RI 03/09/2007
EJBD  EPA 600/3-77-031 c.1 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 03/07/2014
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600/3-77-031 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023 DISPERSAL
ESAD  EPA 600-3-77-031 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 03/23/2010
NTIS  PB-269 291 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation x, 37 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Abstract
Vaccination with Vibrio anguillarum by oral administration during copper exposure and intraperitoneal injection prior to copper exposure was employed to investigate the effects of copper upon survival and the immune response of juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). Following copper exposure the survivors were challenged under natural conditions to V. anguillarum, the causative agent of vibriosis in fish. Copper concentrations of 18.1 micrograms/liter and higher caused significant mortality among coho fry during 30 days of exposure. The exposure of copper bioassay survivors to a natural challenge against V. anguillarum in seawater caused significant mortality among those fish from concentrations of copper at 13.9 micrograms/liter and higher. The reduced number of dead fish positive for V. anguillarum from the challenge suggests that sublethal copper stress and difficulty with seawater adaption may have caused several deaths. Significant mortality occurred among coho fingerlings exposed to 24.6 micrograms/liter copper and higher for 31 days. Most of the survivors of these concentrations were unable to adapt to seawater and died within the first three days of challenge.
Notes
"March 1977." Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-36).