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Main Title Effects of copper and zinc on smoltification of coho salmon /
Author Lorz, Harold W., ; McPherson., Barry P.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
McPherson, Barry P.,
CORP Author Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, Corvallis.;Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., Oreg. Western Fish Toxicology Station.
Publisher Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Corvallis Environmental Research Laboratory,
Year Published 1977
Report Number EPA-600/3-77-032; EPA-R-802468; PB268304
Stock Number 22161
OCLC Number 03114579
ISBN pbk.
Subjects Coho salmon ; Smolting ; Zinc--Toxicology ; Copper--Toxicology
Additional Subjects Salmon ; Metals ; Toxicity ; Water pollution ; Animal physiology ; Animal migrations ; Copper ; Zinc ; Toxic tolerances ; Blood plasma ; Adenosine phosphates ; Enzymes ; Sea water ; Sublethal dosage ; Osmosis ; Fresh water ; Survival ; Mortality ; Bioassay ; Tables(Data) ; Experimental data ; Coho salmon ; Water pollution effects(Animals)
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HathiTrust Digital Library http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/3114579.html
https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=9101EXTD.PDF
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EJBD  EPA 600/3-77-032 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 05/12/2006
EKCD  EPA-600/3-77-032 CEMM/GEMMD Library/Gulf Breeze,FL 06/26/2018
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-3-77-032 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
ELBD  EPA 600-3-77-032 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 04/10/1998
ESAD  EPA 600-3-77-032 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 03/23/2010
NTIS  PB-268 304 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation xi, 69 pages : illustrations, graphs ; 28 cm.
Abstract
Many species of trout and salmon spend their early life in freshwater and then migrate to the sea. Transition from freshwater to marine existence requires physiological changes which are involved in the development of the migratory smolt stage. Sublethal exposure to pollutants in freshwater could theoretically disrupt smoltification and indirectly cause the death of smolts. In this study, exposure of smolt age coho to sublethal levels of copper in freshwater interfered with normal osmotic and ionic control in blood plasma; when the copper exposed fish were transferred to seawater the plasma osmolality and chloride concentrations increased significantly, compared to controls, and many died. These responses were attributed in part to an observed suppression of Na(+), K(+) -- activated ATPase activity in the gills of copper exposed fish. The most sensitive latent effect of exposure to sublethal levels of copper was the failure of copper exposed coho smolts to migrate successfully following release into a natural stream.
Notes
"Prepared by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Corvallis, Oregon, under grant no. R 802468."--GPO catalog card. "March 1977." Includes appendices. Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-54).