Largest Study to Date Shows Pharmaceutical Pollution Alters Migration in Atlantic Salmon
Umeå researcher Jerker Fick, together with researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, has conducted the largest study to date investigating how pharmaceutical pollution affects the behaviour and migration of Atlantic salmon. They found that typical environmental levels of a pharmaceutical used for sleep disorders influenced the migration success of juvenile salmon in the wild.
Pharmaceuticals in aquatic ecosystems - a growing issue
"The presence of pharmaceuticals in our surface waters has been studied for two decades now," says Jerker Fick, Associate professor at the Department of...
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