Nationwide monitoring of mercury in wild and farmed fish from fresh and coastal waters of Korea

Chemosphere

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1360-1368

  Kim, Chan Kook ^a,b   Lee, Tae Woo ^a   Lee, Kyu Tae ^a   Lee, Jong Hyeon ^a   Lee, Chang Bok ^b  

^a NeoEnBiz Co   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Farmed fish; Korea; Mercury; Monitoring; Wild fish

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; MERCURY (METAL); MONITORING; WATER;

FARMED FISHES; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENTS; INTERSPECIES VARIATION; KOREA; MANAGEMENT MEASURES; MAXIMUM CONCENTRATIONS; PLANKTIVOROUS FISH; WILD FRESHWATER FISHES;

FISH;

FRESH WATER; MERCURY;

AQUACULTURE; COASTAL WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PERCIFORM; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; WILD POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CARNIVORE; CATFISH; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISH; INGESTION; KOREA; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORE; SEDIMENT;

KOREA;

MUGIL CEPHALUS; PISCES; SILURUS ASOTUS; SINIPERCA SCHERZERI;

EID: 84866597231     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.05.093     Document Type: Article

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