Persistent organic pollutants in sea otter blood and in blue mussels from the Aleutian Islands and southeast Alaska
Two data sets concerning organic contaminants are included here to aid in assessment of the sea otter population collapse in southwest Alaska. 
One data set consists of levels of organic pollutant compounds found in wild sea otter blood collected from captured animals in 1997 (Jessup et al., 2010). These sea otters …