Heavy Metal Concentrations in Fish Tissues from the Northeast Mediterranean Sea

Kalay, Mustafa; Ay, Özcan; Canli, Mustafa

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“…Additionally, the Cd concentrations in the muscles of different marine fishes harvested from Masan Bay, Korea (0.02 μg/g to 0.05 μg/g, dry weight) (Kwon and Lee 2001) were lower than those reported in our study. Kalay et al, (1999) reported higher concentrations of Cd as compared to this study with mean concentrations ranged from 1.28-1.60 µg/g for marine fish samples collected from Mediterranean Sea in 1996. The proposed limits of Cd set by FAO/WHO (1989), EU in 2001 and TFC for eatable fish is about 0.5 µg/g, 0.1 µg/g and 0.1 µg/g dry wt., respectively ( Yilmaz, 2009) which is lower than 70% of the values observed during this study.…”

Section: Distribution Of Heavy Metals In Fish Speciescontrasting

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Zaqoot¹,

Aish²,

Wafi³

2017

Turk. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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The concentrations of manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) in the muscles of grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) that were collected from Gaza fishing harbor and the surrounding areas were investigated in this study. Eight sampling locations were selected to conduct the study along the coast of Gaza. The samples were taken in September, November 2013 and March 2014. Heavy metals were identified and analyzed by Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer. The mean concentrations of heavy metals in soft tissues of fish were as follows: Mn:0.90 µg/g; Cu:13.15 µg/g; Zn:25.87 µg/g; Ni:1.10 µg/g; Co:0.68 µg/g; Pb:1.82 µg/g and Cd:0.27 µg/g, respectively. The highest concentrations of metals in fish tissues were found to be detected for zinc (13.56-40.43 µg/g) and the lowest were for cobalt (nd-2.93 µg/g) and cadmium (0.02-0.51 µg/g). The heavy metal concentrations in most fish samples were found to be below the acceptable limits proposed for fish by various international standards such as European Union (EU), World Health Organization (WHO), and Turkish guidelines (TFC). Therefore, it can be concluded that no risk on human health would be elevated at present from the consumption of fish collected from Gaza fishing harbor.

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Section: Distribution Of Heavy Metals In Fish Speciescontrasting

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Zaqoot¹,

Aish²,

Wafi³

2017

Turk. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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“…However, the content of toxic TE in fish can counteract their beneficial effects (Castro-González and Méndez-Armenta, 2008). As recently pointed out, high concentrations of these elements are found in the Mediterranean Sea in many types of commercially important fish (Demirak et al, 2006;Kalay et al, 1999;Papetti and Rossi, 2009a).…”

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Trace element concentrations in the apex predator swordfish (Xiphias gladius) from a Mediterranean fishery and risk assessment for consumers

Gobert

Pasqualini

Dijoux

et al. 2017

Marine Pollution Bulletin

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“…Heavy metals accumulate in tissues of aquatic animals and hence heavy metals detected in tissues of aquatic animals can reflect the exposures (Kalay et al, 1999;Canli and Atli, 2003;Yılmaz, 2003Yılmaz, , 2005 (Figure 3). Much of the variation in trace metal tissue concentrations in aquatic organisms has been ascribed to the diversity in size as well as age of individuals (Farkas et al, 2003), sex (Al-Yousuf et al, 2000), and feeding habits (Canli et al, 2001;Yılmaz, 2005).…”

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Characteristics, functions, and applications of metallothionein in aquatic vertebrates

Weichao

Mao

et al. 2014

Front. Mar. Sci.

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The documents on Metallothioneins (MTs) in aquatic creatures, especially focusing on their function as biomarkers in environmental monitoring programmes, are vast and increasing. There are, however, few papers to summary the physiological role of MTs in aquatic organisms especially on development. The multifaceted roles of MTs include involvement in homeostasis, protection against heavy metals and oxidant damages, and metabolic regulation, sequestration and/or redox control. In this paper, we have collected published information on MTs in aquatic organisms-pisces, amphibians, mammals, etc., and analyzed their function in these aquatic animals. MTs have four main functions in aquatic vertebrate. They are respectively bioaccumulation of toxic metals and detoxification, homeostatic regulation of metals, protection against oxidative stress and neuroprotective mechanism. MTs separate in different tissues and they have various distributions in different tissues of aquatic vertebrate, including liver, gills, kidney, testes, and brain. MTs can be induced by a variety of environmental and physiological factors, among which, heavy metals are the main kind of MTs inducers in aquatic vertebrate. Here we pay more attention on the essential metals copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) and the non-essential metals cadmium (Cd), silver (Ag), lead (Pb), and mercury (Hg).

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Heavy Metal Concentrations in Fish Tissues from the Northeast Mediterranean Sea

Cited by 257 publications

References 11 publications

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Trace element concentrations in the apex predator swordfish (Xiphias gladius) from a Mediterranean fishery and risk assessment for consumers

Characteristics, functions, and applications of metallothionein in aquatic vertebrates

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