Updated November 5th, 2002

Responses of Fish communities to Acidic Waters in Ontario
Author: J.R.M. Kelso and J.M. Gunn
Source: Early Biotic Repsonses to Advancign Lake Acidification (Acid Precipitation Series Vol. 6)
Date: 1984

Acid precipitation is a wide-scale problem currently threatening aquatic resources of much of northeaster North Amerca. Losses of fish populations are among the serious effects of acidification. In Canada, acidic lakes exist in Quebec and Nova Scotia, but the highest proportion of these systems are in Ontario where amny occur in the fume-affected area to the southwest  and northeast of the metal smelting complex at Sudbury.
 

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