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Submission:
Just think what harm trace amounts of toxic and flammable jet fuel spills will do to the marshes and salmon fisheries in the Fraser River estuary and the Salish sea.
“The best predictors of long-term, population-level consequences after the Exxon Valdez spill were not dead animals in the water, but sub-lethal effects,” Whitehead says.
Jim Ronback, P.Eng. (Retired)
Trace amounts of crude oil harm fish
– Deepwater Horizon spill affected gene expression in Gulf killifish.”
Melissa Gaskill
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110926/full/news.2011.546.html
“Genomic and physiological footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on resident marsh fishes
Andrew Whitehead et al
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/09/21/1109545108.full.pdf
“Common mechanism underlies repeated evolution of extreme pollution tolerance”,
Andrew Whitehead, Whitney Pilcher, Denise Champlin and Diane Nacci
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/06/29/rspb.2011.0847
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