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  • Waiting to collect a biopsy sample (a tiny piece of skin/fat) from killer whales. The implement used for this is an air gun. Photo: Deanna Marie Leonard (Institute of Marine Research)

    Polar bears and whales in the spotlight of toxicological studies

    By Pierre Blévin (Akvaplan-niva), Heli Routti (the Norwegian Polar Institute) and Anders Goksøyr (the University of Bergen)

    Many pollutants are toxic and potentially harmful for marine life. Figuring out the pollutants’ effects on whales and polar bears is not easy. Traditional methods have limitations, but alternative research strategies are entering the laboratories.
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  • Herring fishermen at work by the fieldworkers (Photo: Pierre Blevin)

    Marine mammals fieldwork amongst fishermen

    This week, Pierre Blévin (Akvaplan-niva) is on-board Helmer Hanssen participating to a fieldwork cruise to collect data on killer whales and humpback whales in northern Norway. The fieldwork leader, Audun Rikardsen from UiT the Arctic University of Norway, managed to collect biopsies of several whales while the fishing boats were pumping herrings from the nets. The samples will feed into various p