Beginning in 2012, a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Science and Environmental Conservation Programs to the State University of New York supported research to measure cesium levels in Bluefin tuna, developing a deeper understanding of their migratory patterns and improving fishery science and management approaches.
Through related research, scientists have now found evidence that emission reduction efforts have resulted in lower mercury concentrations in Atlantic Bluefin. According to the researchers, tuna provide more mercury (∼40 percent) to the U.S population than any other source.
Read the study abstract, as published in Environmental Science & Technology, here.
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