Document Author: Mark G. Carls

Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons In Port Valdez Shrimp And Sediment – January 2015

Small amounts of crude oil hydrocarbons enter the waters of Port Valdez from discharge from the terminal’s ballast water treatment facility. Subsistence shrimp fishermen wanted to know if shrimp caught in Port Valdez were safe to eat, so the Council commissioned a report through Auke Bay Lab to provide information about hydrocarbon levels found in shrimp harvested in Port Valdez.

Embryonic Crude Oil Exposure Causes Cardiac Hypertrophy And Reduced Aerobic Performance In Juvenile Pink Salmon And Pacific Herring

The 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster exposed the embryos of pink salmon and Pacific herring to weathered crude oil in shoreline habitats throughout Prince William Sound. The Pacific herring population collapsed four years later. The role of the oil spill, if any, in the forage fish decline has remained one of the most prominent unanswered questions in modern natural resource injury assessment.

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