The influence of contaminant and water quality conditions on larval striped bass in the Potomac River and upper Chesapeake Bay in 1990: Anin situ study

1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenwood W. Hall ◽  
Michael C. Ziegenfuss ◽  
Steven A. Fischer ◽  
John A. Sullivan ◽  
Deborah M. Palmer
1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenwood W. Hall ◽  
Michael C. Ziegenfuss ◽  
Steven J. Bushong ◽  
John A. Sullivan ◽  
Michael A. Unger

Author(s):  
Lenwood W. Hall ◽  
Michael C. Ziegenfuss ◽  
Steven J. Bushong ◽  
Michael A. Unger ◽  
Roger L. Herman

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenwood W. Hall ◽  
Alfred E. Pinkney ◽  
L. Herman ◽  
Susan E. Finger

Author(s):  
Lenwood W. Hall ◽  
Alfred E. Pinkney ◽  
Larry O. Horseman ◽  
Susan E. Finger

1988 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenwood W. Hall ◽  
Steven J. Bushong ◽  
Michael C. Ziegenfuss ◽  
W. Scott Hall ◽  
Roger L. Herman

1987 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 73-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenwood W. Hall ◽  
W. Scott Hall ◽  
Steven J. Bushong ◽  
Roger L. Herman

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Wright

Copper and cadmium monitoring in Chesapeake Bay sediments indicates that metal contamination exists in nursery areas for striped bass (Moronesaxatilis), which has been in serious decline over the last 17 years. Whole water metal concentrations in one spawning river were within an order of magnitude of published acutely toxic concentrations. Larval striped bass were exposed in the laboratory to copper and cadmium concentrations which were acutely toxic over a 96h period (24 and 19 µg L−1, respectively), and to sub-lethal concentrations of these metals over a three week period. Larvae from acutely toxic metal treatments, sub-lethal metal concentrations and control tanks were analyzed for cadmium and copper and the frequency distribution of metal body burdens was compared with field data. The distribution of copper concentrations in laboratory-exposed larvae was completely within the range of field specimens, and there was considerable overlap in cadmium frequency distributions from laboratory and field larvae. These results together with other published data suggest that environmental metal concentrations in some spawning tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay may pose a threat to striped bass, and the suggestion is made that greater efforts should be made to link laboratory and field toxicological data.


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