Table 2.— Continued. 



Species and location 



No. of samples Length (cm) 



Weight (kg) 



Age (yr) 



Lipid content (%) 



Total PCBs (ppm) 



Striped mullet 



Mobile Bay. Ala. 



East Bay. Fla. 



Bay St. Louis, Miss. 



Chandeleur Sound. La. 



Galveston Bay, Tex. 



San Luis Pass, Tex. 

 Chub mackerel 



Inside LA Harbor 



Outside LA Harbor 



Frontside Catalina 

 Spanish mackerel 



East Bay. Fla. 



Bay St. Louis. Miss. 



Chandeleur Sound, La. 

 California scorpionfish 



Inside LA Harbor 



Outside LA Harbor 



Backside Catalina 

 Winter flounder 



Sandy Hook Bay 



New York Bight 

 Summer Flounder 



Sandy Hook Bay 



Cape May Peninsula 

 Windowpane flounder 



New York Bight 

 Hogchoker 



Hudson River 

 Pacific sanddab 



Frontside Catalina 



Backside Catalina 

 Southern flounder 



Galveston Bay, Tex. 



San Luis Pass, Tex. 



'YOY = young of a year. 



Table 3. — National PCB survey of targeted finfishes. 



Species indigenous to the Galveston Bay and Los 

 Angeles Harbor areas had slightly higher PCB values 

 than those species sampled from their pristine 

 counterparts — namely, San Luis Pass and Catalina 

 Island. 



Apparent trends from the limited number of sam- 

 ples per species collected were: Flounders from the 

 New York Bight Apex had higher PCB values than 

 those flounders sampled from Cape May Peninsula 

 and Sandy Hook Bay; striped mullets collected from 

 Chandeleur Sound, La., and San Luis Pass, Tex., had 

 lower PCB values than striped mullets sampled from 

 other sites of the Gulf; seatrouts had slightly higher 

 PCB values in the northeast than in the eastern part 

 of the Gulf of Mexico; and species with high fat con- 

 tent sampled from contaminated sites had higher 

 PCB values, e.g., Spanish mackerel, Gulf menhaden, 

 than those species sampled from pristine sites. 



Discussion 



The lack of a consistent pattern of higher body bur- 

 dens in selected contaminated areas may be related to 

 the mobility of the species sampled. It is possible, 

 though conjectural, that a large proportion of the 



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