Marsili L, Fossi M C, Casini S, Savelli C, Jimenez B, Junin M, Castello H
Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, University of Siena, Italy.
Chemosphere. 1997 Feb;34(4):759-70. doi: 10.1016/s0045-6535(97)00003-9.
The fingerprint of 14 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) was investigated in biopsy, fur, blood, liver and faeces of live and dead specimens of two Argentinian population of southern sea lion (Otaria flavescens). One colony lives in Mar del Plata harbour which is particularly polluted with petroleum, the second (control) colony lives at Punta Bermeja (Patagonia). The highest concentrations of the five carcinogenic PAHs were found in the Mar del Plata sea lions.
