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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 31.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2014 Apr 12;131:119–130. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.02.016

Table 3.

Contaminant levels in Rock Greenling collected from from the Aleutian Islands during the summer of 2004. Given are means±SE and geometric means below. Comparisons are made with Kruskal-Wallis 1-Way ANOVA, yielding an X2 statistic. All values are in ng/g (ppb wet weight).

Rock Greenling Total Length (cm) Standard Length (cm) Weight (g) Arsenic Cadmium Lead Mercury Selenium

N
Amchitka Island
 Cannikin 8 35.8 ± 1.37 31.4 ± 1.15 619 ± 51.5 273 ± 94.2 2.22 ± 0.74 33.0 ± 10.3 117 ± 29.4 208 ± 47.3
35.6 31.2 604 119 0.95 12.7 52.0 59.8
 Constantine Harbor 5 32.5 ± 1.32 28.6 ± 1.48 504 ± 42.6 445 ± 88.0 2.13 ± 1.02 0.95 ± 0.70 97.4 ± 22.4 252 ± 33.6
32.4 28.4 497 406 0.32 0.30 87.0 244
 Long Shot 2 31.0 ± 2.00 27.0 ± 1.00 459 ± 65.5 437 ± 238 2.23 ± 0.75 6.84 ± 1.33 76.5 ± 41.5 231 ± 0.67
30.9 27.0 554 366 2.10 6.70 64.3 231
 Milrow 10 35.5 ± 1.09 30.8 ± 1.11 603 ± 56.0 269 ± 54.5 2.42 ± 0.48 5.17 ± 1.81 153 ± 45.6 159 ± 33.0
35.4 30.6 579 209 1.17 1.53 94.3 110

Intra-island Kruskal-Wallis 4.9 (NS) 3.6 (NS) 2.8 (NS) 3.0 (NS) 0.4 (NS) 10.3 (0.02) 0.7 (NS) 2.0 (NS)
Amchitka (Totals) 25 34.6 ± 0.73 30.2 ± 0.68 577 ± 30.3 319 ± 44.4 2.28 ± 0.35 13.4 ± 4.26 124 ± 21.0 199 ± 21.5
34.4 30.0 558 208 0.89 2.39 74.4 113

Adak Island 4 38.1 ± 0.8 33.9 ± 0.75 815 ± 68.1 436 ± 88.5 1.51 ± 0.86 30.3 ± 15.8 120 ± 25.5 173 ± 21.5
38.1 33.9 807 409 0.17 6.40 114 169
Umnak Island 4 41.8 ± 1.31 36.3 ± 1.11 943 ± 120 910 ± 226 0.22 ± 0.21 44.5 ± 22.1 52.5 ± 9.12 236 ± 63.5
41.7 36.2 917 817 0.03 10.0 49.4 214
Kiska Island 10 33.8 ± 1.03 27.9 ± 0.97 482 ± 43.5 301 ± 133 2.14 ± 0.84 3.81 ± 1.93 46.0 ± 17.7 147 ± 34.2
33.6 27.7 450 165 0.30 0.62 13.0 23.2

X 2 17.0 (0.009) 18.4 (0.005) 17.0 (0.009) 12.7 (0.05) 5.7 (NS) 14.0 (0.03) 10.4 (NS) 4.6 (NS)