Organochlorine contaminaupper trophic-level consumers inhabiting Puget Sound are consistently higher than species inhabiting other west coast locations.we analyzed persistent organic pollu-tants (POPs) in the six most common fish prey of rhinoceros auklets breeding on Protection lsland (Puget Sound), Tatoosh lsland (WA coast), and Destruction lsland (WA coast), Wet-weinght concentrations of POPs ranged widely (PCBs: 1.6-25.0 ng/g; DDTs: 0.2-56.0 ng/g; PBDEs: