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Examining PFAS in Alaskan fisheries

Man walks through the wilderness next to a streamNOAA researchers and partners recently collected adult salmon and juvenile rainbow trout as part of a five-year study to investigate the presence of PFAS (forever chemicals) in Alaskan fisheries, how they got there, and to understand their movement through the food web.