It is important to recognize that human activates resulting in upstream pollution within the Mobile River Basin have profound impacts on the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. Such pollution can include sediments, trace elements, metals, and pesticides draining from the basin upstream. Trace elements detected in fish tissue collected from sites throughout the Mobile River Basin suggest that aluminum, boron, copper, iron, manganese, selenium, strontium, and zinc are the trace elements that are most prevalent in the water.
