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Factors controlling the mobilization, transport, and bioavailability of mercury in relation to coal mining and other mercury sources were studied in reservoirs of the Upper Missouri River Basin. We assessed mercury and selenium contamination of fishes and sediments in 10 reservoirs, estimated mercury fluxes in Tongue River Reservoir, determined dietary accumulation of methylmercury by fish, and related limnological conditions in three reservoirs to rates of mercury accumulation by fish. Detailed limnological studies were conducted in Nelson, Cookson, and Tongue River reservoirs. Mercury concentrations were higher in walleyes (Stizostedion vitreum vitreum) from headwater reservoirs with unregulated inflows than in fish of the same size from downstream reservoirs. Erosion and leaching during flooding apparently facilitated mercury accumulation by fish in reservoirs.
Complex and ever changing in its forms and functions, the element mercury follows a convoluted course through the environment and up the food chain. The process is complicated further by the fact that the difference between tolerable natural background levels and harmful effects in the environment is exceptionally small and still not completely und