Publications

fish tissue quality in the lower mississippi river and health risks from fish consumption.	between 1990 and 1994, samples of three shellfish species (i.e. blue crab, callinectes sapidus;crayfish, procambarus acutis; and river shrimp, macrobrachium ohionii) and 16 fish species and were collected at six sites along the lower mississippi river by the louisiana department of environmental quality, office of water resources in coordination with the us environmental protection agency. the fish species included: bigmouth buffalo (ictiobus cyanellus); blue catfish (ictalurus furcatus); carp ( ...	2003	12526903
mercury bioaccumulation and trophic transfer in sympatric snapper species from the gulf of mexico.	consumption of marine fish is a major route of toxic methyl mercury (mehg) exposure to ocean apex predators and human populations. here we explore the influence of trophic structure on total mercury (hg) accumulation in red snapper (rs, lutjanus campechanus) and gray snapper (gs, lutjanus griseus) from the coastal louisiana region of the gulf of mexico, west of the mississippi river. the objectives of this investigation were to: (1) determine the effectiveness of the use of offshore recreational ...	2007	17974344