Short communication: Cadmium determination in two flat fishes from two fishery regions in north of the Persian Gulf

Heavy metals are natural trace components of the aquatic environment, but their levels have increased due to industrial agriculture, mining activities, industrial activity, shipping accident. Pollution studies in the ROPME area including the Persian Gulf and the Oman Sea are extremely important because this region is shallow, semi-enclosed, and has a very high evaporation rate and poor flushing characteristics. Other Iranian scientists reported the pollution from inland water but our study was the first on evaluation of Cadmium pollution from northern coastal waters of the Persian Gulf, belonging to the Iranian coastlines. The aim of this study was to examine the quality of local seafood in terms of heavy metal contamination by examining the two commercial fish species, Euryglossa orientalis and Psettodes erumei through the determination of Cd concentration levels in the muscle and liver tissues of the fish, monitoring the ROPME region, and investigating the relationship between fish size and metal concentration in the different tissues of these two flat fishes.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Jaafarzadeh Haghighi, N., Khoshnood, R., Khoshnood, Z.
Format:	article biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	Biology, Fisheries, Pollution, Cadmium, Euryglossa orientalis, Psettodes erumei, Persian Gulf-Iranian coastal lines, Iran,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1834/37219
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