My lab has a set of tissue samples collected from cetaceans caught for human consumption by the whaling operation in St. Vincent, West Indies. We are currently analyzing the samples for concentrations of Hg (total and organic) and HOCs. Sufficient portions of each individual sample remain for additional research. If your lab is interested in using small portions of these samples, please contact me at
russell.fielding@sewanee.edu. We have muscle, blubber, kidney, and liver tissues from
Globicephala macrorhynchus,
Orcinus orca,
Stenella longirostris,
Grampus griseus, and
Pseudorca crassidens but not every tissue type is represented for each species.