Hydrographic and Meteorological Factors Affecting Shellfish Toxicity at Head Harbour, New Brunswick
- 1 January 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
- Vol. 19 (1) , 101-112
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f62-005
Abstract
Toxicities recorded from 1944 to 1958 in blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) from Head Harbour, N.B., are examined in relation to some hydrographic and meteorological factors. Within-year variations in toxicity are correlated with summer rises in water temperature. Year-to-year variations are directly correlated with springtime insolation and salinity and inversely correlated with springtime river discharge and winter water temperature. The probable role of these factors in regulating the abundance of the causative organism, hence, levels of toxicity, is discussed.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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