Journal
BIOLOGICAL TRACE ELEMENT RESEARCH
Volume 141, Issue 1-3, Pages 150-158Publisher
HUMANA PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1007/s12011-010-8739-5
Keywords
Notothenia coriiceps; Heavy metals; Antarctica
Funding
- Bulgarian National Science Fund [B 16-15/2006]
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The Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn, and Mn contents of the liver, spleen, muscle, bones, scales, gills, and the whole body of 3- to 7-year-old notothenioid Antarctic cod (Notothenia coriiceps, Richardson, 1844) were measured. The highest heavy metal concentrations obtained are as follows: Cd in liver, the mean value was 1.36 +/- A 0.19 mg/kg dry weight (wt); Pb and Zn in spleen, the mean values were 3.33 +/- A 0.86 and 143.97 +/- A 16.17 mg/kg dry wt, respectively; Cu in gills, 3.76 +/- A 1.16 mg/kg dry wt; and Mn in scales, 14.80 +/- A 4.77 mg/kg dry wt. The comparison with the data reported up to now shows that the metal concentrations varied within relative wide ranges. These first data obtained could be used as a baseline to investigate further relationships among metal contents in fish, their diet, and habitat.
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