The original paper by Sunderland et al. (2018) misquoted the origin of bluefish in the paper by Cross et al. (2015) as the Gulf of Mexico rather than the mid-Atlantic region. It also suggested that declines in emissions from coal-fired power plants were the primary reason for a decline in bluefish mercury concentrations, whereas Cross et al. (2015) suggested that declines in emissions from waste incineration, in addition to coal-fired power plants as the largest remaining emissions source in the United States, were the primary reason for the observed decline. The authors regret this error.
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