Combining pesticides makes them more deadly to salmon
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in Conservation, conservation, save our wild salmon

Common agricultural pesticides that attack the nervous systems of salmon can turn more deadly when they combine with other pesticides, researchers have found.

Scientists from the NOAA Fisheries Service and Washington State University were expecting that the harmful effects would add up as they accumulated in the water. They were surprised to find a deadly synergy occurred with some combinations, which made the mix more harmful and at lower levels of exposure than the sum of the parts.

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