There have been many suggestions that cancers in fish and other marine organisms are commonplace and are attributable to chemical pollution. There is also concern that, as a number of known carcinogens are accumulated by marine organisms that are commercially exploited for human food, they may present a risk to man.

- 1991 #46 (66p.)
 - Author(s): GESAMP
 - Publisher(s): WHO
 - Journal Series Reports and Studies