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Eliminating Lead from Recreational Shooting and Angling: Relating Wildlife Science to Environmental Policy and Regulation in North America

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Abstract

The manufacture of projectiles for ammunition used in hunting and target shooting, and for terminal tackle (sinkers and jigs) used in recreational angling, comprises a significant continuing commercial use of lead, and a major source of lead deposition into the environment. Thousands of tons of metallic lead are deposited into the North American environment annually from hunting, target-shooting, and recreational angling activities. Numerous symposia and conferences have been held, and hundreds of research papers have been published, addressing lead exposure and toxicosis in wildlife from ingestion of spent lead ammunition and fishing sinkers, but the transition (regulatory or otherwise) to nontoxic substitutes has been slow, impeded in large part by the resistance of hunters, anglers, and their representative organizations to adopt nontoxic products, rather than an inability of the ammunition and tackle industries to manufacture and distribute such products. Here, we present a historical analysis of the interactions between environmental science and regulatory policy development with respect to the use of lead in recreational shooting and angling in North America.

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Scheuhammer, A.M., Thomas, V.G. (2011). Eliminating Lead from Recreational Shooting and Angling: Relating Wildlife Science to Environmental Policy and Regulation in North America. In: Elliott, J., Bishop, C., Morrissey, C. (eds) Wildlife Ecotoxicology. Emerging Topics in Ecotoxicology, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89432-4_12

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