New articles in Salish Sea Currents: following toxics through the food web

Watch for several new articles in Salish Sea Currents in the coming weeks. On Monday, senior writer Christopher Dunagan takes an in-depth look at new theories on the transport of PCBs through the Puget Sound foodweb. Conventional wisdom points to contaminants in the seafloor sediment, but new studies may show a radically different source. If the studies bear out, they will have big implications for Puget Sound's endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales, which are among the most contaminated marine mammals in the world. 

Later in the series, EoPS contributor Eric Wagner writes about biofilm. Also known as 'sea slime' (or any of a number of other less than flattering monikers), it turns out that this goopy substance is tremendously important to the region's seabirds. But could biofilm be threatened by new developments in Vancouver?

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