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Notes
1 Meaning souces from transportation i.e. cars, vessels,
etc. is excluded.
2 There was one outlier in the August (Hestoy) samples
with > 20 mg/kg Hg in feathers and almost 10 mg/kg
dw Hg in liver.
3 Where "grind" is the term used to describe the total
number of pilot whales taken in one particular drive.