Total Mercury in Aquaculture Fish
- Consuelo Revert 1
- Cintia Hernández-Sánchez 1
- Arturo Hardisson 1
- José Hernández-Armas
- Abderrahim Jalili
- Gonzalo Lozano
- Carmen Rubio 1
- Ángel Gutiérrez 1
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Universidad de La Laguna
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ISSN: 1230-1485, 2083-5906
Año de publicación: 2012
Volumen: 21
Número: 5
Páginas: 1203 - 1209
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Polish Journal of Environmental Studies
Resumen
Three fish species from aquaculture cages located along the coast of Tenerife island (Canary Islands, Spain) were analyzed: gilthead bream (Sparus aurata), sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry was used to determine total mercury in 120 fish muscle samples. 0.037±0.04 mg/kg, 0.082±0.15 mg/kg, and 0.023±0.025 mg/kg wet weight of Hg were found for sea bass, gilthead bream, and rainbow trout, respectively. Due to these low Hg levels, the consumption of these species of aquaculture fish contributes very little to total Hg dietary intake.