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Recent Reports Reports are primarily in Adobe PDF Format O'Neill and West.  2001.  Exposure of Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) to Persistent Organic Pollutants in Puget Sound and the Georgia Basin. Puget Sound Research ’01 Proceedings.  Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team, Seattle, WA.  O'Neill et al. 1995.  Contaminant Monitoring in Fish: Overview of the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program Fish Task.  Pages 35-50 in E. Robichaud, editor.  Puget Sound Research ’95 Proceedings. Puget Sound Water Quality Authority, PO Box 40900, Olympia, WA  98504-0900, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, Washington. O'Neill et al. 1998.  Geographic and Temporal Patterns in Toxicopathic Liver Lesions in English sole (Pleuronectes vetulus) from Puget Sound and Relationships with Contaminant Concentrations in Sediments and Fish Tissues (Abstract).  Page 730 in E. R. Strickland, editor.  Puget Sound Research ’98 Proceedings.  Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team, Seattle, WA. O'Neill et al. 1998.  Spatial Trends in the Concentration of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and Coho Salmon (O. kisutch) in Puget Sound and Factors Affecting PCB Accumulation: Results from the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program. Pages 312-328 in E. R. Strickland, editor.  Puget Sound Research ’98 Proceedings.  Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team, Seattle, WA. O’Neill et al. 2001.  Poster Session: Toxicopathic Liver Disease In English Sole, PSAMP: 1989‑1999.  Unpublished.  Puget Sound Research ’01 Conference: Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, Washington. Palsson, Wayne. Puget Sound Groundfish Reports: Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team.  1998.  Toxic Contaminants: Fish.  Pages 40-51 in 1998 Puget Sound Update: Sixth Report of the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program.  Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team.  Olympia, Washington.  Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team.  2000.  Toxic Contaminants in Fish. Pages 56-64 in 2000 Puget Sound Update: Seventh Report of the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program.  Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team.  Olympia, Washington. Puget Sound Water Quality Authority. 1995.  Chemical Contamination in Fish.  Pages 24-30 in 1994 Puget Sound Update: Sixth Report of the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program.  Puget Sound Water Quality Authority.  Olympia, Washington.  West and O'Neill 1995.  Accumulation of Mercury and Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Quillback Rockfish (Sebastes maliger) from Puget Sound, Washington.  Pages 666-677 in E. Robichaud, editor.  Puget Sound Research ’95 Proceedings.  Puget Sound Water Quality Authority, PO Box 40900, Olympia, WA  98504-0900, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, Washington.  West, J. E. 1997. Protection and restoration of marine life in the inland waters of Washington State. Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Environmental Report Series No. 6, Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team, Olympia, WA.  West and O'Neill 1998.  Persistent Pollutants and Factors Affecting their Accumulation in Rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) from Puget Sound, Washington.  Pages 336- 345 in E. R. Strickland, editor.  Puget Sound Research ’98 Proceedings.  Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team, Seattle, WA. West et al.  2001. Implications for reproductive health in rockfish (Sebastes spp) from Puget Sound exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls.  Puget Sound Research ’01 Proceedings.  Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team, Seattle, WA.  West et al. 2001. Toxic contaminants in marine and anadromous fish from Puget Sound, Washington: Results from the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program Fish Component, 1989-1999. Technical Report FTP01-14, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia, WA. Files formatted in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) require the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print. You can download the free reader directly from Adobe.