Heavy metals contamination in water and three species of most consumed fish sampled from Caspian Sea, 2011

The present study is an attempt to evaluate the heavy metal contamination in the marine environment of the Caspian Sea of Iran. The concentrations of zinc, chromium, cadmium, and lead were measured in water and dorsal muscle of fish sampled from 10 selected stations along Gorgan coast using atomic a...

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Published in:Environmental monitoring and assessment 2013-12, Vol.185 (12), p.10333-10337
Main Authors: Saeedi Saravi, S. S., Shokrzadeh, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Animals
Applied ecology
Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution
Atomic absorption spectrophotometry
Biological and medical sciences
Cadmium
Chromium
Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife
Contamination
Cyprinus carpio
Earth and Environmental Science
Ecology
Ecotoxicology
Environment
Environmental Management
Environmental Monitoring
Fatty acids
Fish
Fishes - metabolism
Food chains
Food contamination & poisoning
Freshwater
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Heavy metal content
Heavy metals
Indicator organisms
Industrial wastes
Iran
Lead
Marine environment
Marine pollution
Metal concentrations
Metals, Heavy - analysis
Metals, Heavy - metabolism
Monitoring/Environmental Analysis
Pollution levels
Polyethylene
Seafood - analysis
Seafood - statistics & numerical data
Seawater - chemistry
Sediments
Spectral analysis
Spectrophotometry
Studies
Water
Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis
Water Pollutants, Chemical - metabolism
Water pollution
Water Pollution, Chemical - statistics & numerical data
Wetlands
Zinc
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Summary:The present study is an attempt to evaluate the heavy metal contamination in the marine environment of the Caspian Sea of Iran. The concentrations of zinc, chromium, cadmium, and lead were measured in water and dorsal muscle of fish sampled from 10 selected stations along Gorgan coast using atomic absorption spectrophotometry during summer of 2011. The average concentrations of lead in water and fish samples (115.29 ± 14.78 and 113.23 ± 27.01 μg/L) were significantly higher than that of cadmium and chromium ( P  
ISSN:0167-6369
1573-2959
DOI:10.1007/s10661-013-3335-8