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The Economist summary says the amphipods that were found to contain PCBs were collected by baiting traps with mackerel. I don't have access to the original res
by ridgeguy 10y ago
The Economist summary says the amphipods that were found to contain PCBs were collected by baiting traps with mackerel.
I don't have access to the original research report, but I wonder if they analyzed the mackerel for those pollutants?
- artine 10y agoFrom the paper: "The traps were baited with ~100 g of mackerel that was enclosed in a mesh bag to allow the development of an odour plume, but prevent the amphipods consuming any of the bait that might otherwise affect POP levels in downstream assays." So even if the mackerel did contain the pollutants, they weren't transferred to the amphipods.
- ridgeguy 10y agoThanks for this. I thought it was unlikely they hadn't controlled for pollution in the bait, but simple things sometimes slip through.