New insights into mercury bioaccumulation in deep-sea organisms from the NW Mediterranean and their human health implications

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 442, Issue , 2013, Pages 329-335

  Koenig, Samuel ^a,b   Solé, Montserrat ^a   Fernández Gómez, Cristal ^b   Díez, Sergi ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deep sea fish; Habitat depth; Mediterranean; Mercury bioaccumulation; Red shrimp Aristeus antennatus; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA FISH; HABITAT DEPTH; MEDITERRANEAN; MERCURY BIOACCUMULATION; RED SHRIMP ARISTEUS ANTENNATUS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; ISOTOPES; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; SHELLFISH;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; NITROGEN 15;

BIOACCUMULATION; CRUSTACEAN; DEEP-SEA ORGANISM; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NITROGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC LEVEL; BIOTA; DEEP SEA; FISH; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METHYLMERCURY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARISTEUS ANTENNATUS; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BODY MASS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DEEP SEA SPECIES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; HABITAT; HEALTH HAZARD; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MORA MORO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TROPHIC LEVEL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BODY WEIGHT; CRUSTACEA; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; POLLUTION MONITORING; REFERENCE VALUE; SHRIMP; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD POISONING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; SEA FOOD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ARISTEUS ANTENNATUS; CRUSTACEA; FARFANTEPENAEUS AZTECUS; MORA MORO;

ANIMALS; CRUSTACEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MERCURY; MUSCLES; SEAFOOD; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84869888315     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.036     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. ACSA Chemical contaminants in fish and shellfish consumed in Catalonia, Spain http://www.gencat.cat/salut/acsa/html/es/dir1599/doc16977.html.
2. Aston S.R., Fowler S.W. Mercury in the open Mediterranean: evidence of contamination?. Sci Total Environ 1985, 43:13-26.
3. Azevedo-Pereira H., Soares A. Effects of mercury on growth, emergence, and behavior of Chironomus riparius Meigen (Diptera: Chironomidae). Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 2010, 59:216-224.
4. Bebianno M.J., Santos C., Canário J., Gouveia N., Sena-Carvalho D., Vale C. Hg and metallothionein-like proteins in the black scabbardfish Aphanopus carbo. Food Chem Toxicol 2007, 45:1443-1452.
5. Bloom N.S. On the chemical form of mercury in edible fish and marine invertebrate tissue. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 1992, 49:1010-1017.
6. Carrasco L., Díez S., Soto D.X., Catalan J., Bayona J.M. Assessment of mercury and methylmercury pollution with zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) in the Ebro River (NE Spain) impacted by industrial hazardous dumps. Sci Total Environ 2008, 407:178-184.
7. Carrassón M., Matallanas J., Casadevall M. Feeding strategies of deep-water morids on the western Mediterranean slope. Deep-Sea Res Part I Oceanogr Res Pap 1997, 44:1685-1699.
8. Carrassón M., Matallanas J. Feeding ecology of the Mediterranean spiderfish, Bathypterois mediterraneus (Pisces: Chlorophthalmidae), on the western Mediterranean slope. Fish Bull 2001, 99:266-274.
9. Carrassón M., Matallanas J. Diets of deep-sea macrourid fishes in the western Mediterranean. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 2002, 234:215-228.
10. Cartes J.E., Abello P., Lloris D., Carbonell A., Torres P., Maynou F., et al. Feeding guilds of western Mediterranean demersal fish and crustaceans: an analysis based in a spring survey. Sci Mar 2002, 66:209-220.
11. Chiu K.-H., Mok H.-K. Study on the accumulation of heavy metals in shallow-water and deep-sea hagfishes. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 2011, 60:643-653.
12. Choy C.A., Popp B.N., Kaneko J.J., Drazen J.C. The influence of depth on mercury levels in pelagic fishes and their prey. Proc Natl Acad Sci 2009, 106:13865-13869.
13. Company J.B., Sardà F. Metabolic rates and energy content of deep-sea benthic decapod crustaceans in the western Mediterranean Sea. Deep Sea Res Part I 1998, 45:1861-1880.
14. Cossa D., Averty B., Pirrone N. The origin of methylmercury in open Mediterranean waters. Limnol Oceanogr 2009, 54:837-844.
15. Cossa D., Coquery M. The Mediterranean mercury anomaly, a geochemical or a biologocal issue. The Mediterranean Sea. Handbook of environmental chemistry 2005, 121-130. Springer, Heidelberg. A. Saliot (Ed.).
16. Cronin M., Davies I.M., Newton A., Pirie J.M., Topping G., Swan S. Trace metal concentrations in deep sea fish from the North Atlantic. Mar Environ Res 1998, 45:225-238.
17. Depew D.C., Basu N., Burgess N.M., Campbell L.M., Devlin E.W., Drevnick P.E., et al. Toxicity of dietary methylmercury to fish: derivation of ecologically meaningful threshold concentrations. Environ Toxicol Chem 2012, 31:1536-1547.
18. Díez S. Human health effects of methylmercury exposure. Rev Environ Contam Toxicol 2009, 198:111-132.
19. Díez S., Montuori P., Querol X., Bayona J.M. Total mercury in the hair of children by combustion atomic absorption spectrometry (Comb-AAS). J Anal Toxicol 2007, 31:144-149.
20. Domingo J.L. Health risks arising from the dietary intake of chemical contaminants: a case study of the consumption of edible marine species in Catalonia. NE Spain. Contrib Sci 2008, 3-4:459-468.
21. Drava G., Capelli R., Minganti V., De Pellegrini R., Orsi Relini L., Ivaldi M. Trace elements in the muscle of red shrimp Aristeus antennatus (Risso, 1816) (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Ligurian sea (NW Mediterranean): variations related to the reproductive cycle. Sci Total Environ 2004, 321:87-92.
22. EC Commission regulation (EC) No. 466/2001. Official Journal of the European Communities 2001, European Economic Community, Brussels, Belgium.
23. FAO/WHO Codex alimentarius guideline levels for methylmercury in fish. CAC/GL 7-1991 1991.
24. Faria M., López M.A., Díez S., Barata C. Are native naiads more tolerant to pollution than exotic freshwater bivalve species? An hypothesis tested using physiological responses of three species transplanted to mercury contaminated sites in the Ebro River (NE, Spain). Chemosphere 2010, 81:1218-1226.
25. Harris H.H., Pickering I.J., George G.N. The chemical form of mercury in fish. Science 2003, 301:1203.
26. Heimbürger L.-E., Cossa D., Marty J.-C., Migon C., Averty B., Dufour A., et al. Methyl mercury distributions in relation to the presence of nano- and picophytoplankton in an oceanic water column (Ligurian Sea, North-western Mediterranean). Geochim Cosmochim Acta 2010, 74:5549-5559.
27. Hornung H., Krom M.D., Cohen Y., Bernhard M. Trace metal content in deep-water sharks from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Mar Biol 1993, 115:331-338.
28. JECFA Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives http://www.chem.unep.ch/mercury/Report/JECFA-PTWI.htm.
29. Kotnik J., Horvat M., Tessier E., Ogrinc N., Monperrus M., Amouroux D., et al. Mercury speciation in surface and deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Mar Chem 2007, 107:13-30.
30. Kraepiel A.M.L., Keller K., Chin H.B., Malcolm E.G., Morel F.M.M. Sources and variations of mercury in tuna. Environ Sci Technol 2003, 37:5551-5558.
31. Marques A.M., Almeida A.J. Notes on the biology of Nezumia sclerorhynchus and Nezumia aequalis (Gadiformes: Macrouridae) from the Algarve slope, Northeast Atlantic. Cybium 1998, 22:21-29.
32. Mason R., Heyes D., Sveinsdottir A. Methylmercury concentrations in fish from tidal waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 2006, 51:425-437.
33. Massutí E., Morales-Nin B., Stefanescu C. Distribution and biology of five grenadier fish (Pisces: Macrouridae) from the upper and middle slope of the northwestern Mediterranean. Deep Sea Res Part I 1995, 42:307-330.
34. Mauchline J., Gordon J.D.M. Occurrence and feeding of berycomorphid and percomorphid teleost fish in the Rockall Trough. J Conseil 1984, 41:239-247.
35. MerMex Group Marine ecosystems' responses to climatic and anthropogenic forcings in the Mediterranean. Prog Oceanogr 2011, 91:97-166.
36. Minganti V., Capelli R., De Pellegrini R., Orsi Relini L., Relini G. Total and organic mercury concentrations in offshore crustaceans of the Ligurian Sea and their relations to the trophic levels. Sci Total Environ 1996, 184:149-162.
37. Monteiro L.R., Costa V., Furness R.W., Santos R.S. Mercury concentrations in prey fish indicate enhanced bioaccumulation in mesopelagic environments. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 1996, 141:21-25.
38. Morales-Nin B., Massutí E., Stefanescu C. Distribution and biology of Alepocephalus rostratus from the Mediterranean Sea. J Fish Biol 1996, 48:1097-1112.
39. Morales-Nin B., Panfili J. Seasonality in the deep sea and tropics revisited: what can otoliths tell us?. Mar Freshw Res 2005, 56:585-598.
40. Mormede S., Davies I.M. Trace elements in deep-water fish species from the Rockall Trough. Fish Res 2001, 51:197-206.
41. Ogrinc N., Monperrus M., Kotnik J., Fajon V., Vidimova K., Amouroux D., et al. Distribution of mercury and methylmercury in deep-sea surficial sediments of the Mediterranean Sea. Mar Chem 2007, 107:31-48.
42. Polunin N.V.C., Morales-Nin B., Pawsey W.E., Cartes J.E., Pinnegar J.K., Moranta J. Feeding relationships in Mediterranean bathyal assemblages elucidated by stable nitrogen and carbon isotope data. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 2001, 220:13-23.
43. Ramirez-Llodra E., Tyler P.A., Baker M.C., Bergstad O.A., Clark M.R., Escobar E., et al. Man and the last great wilderness: human impact on the deep sea. PLoS One 2011, 6:e22588.
44. Rotllant G., Moranta J., Massutí E., Sardà F., Morales-Nin B. Reproductive biology of three gadiform fish species through the Mediterranean deep-sea range (147-1850 m). Sci Mar 2002, 66:157-166.
45. Sardà F., Cartes J.E., Company J.B., Albiol A. A modified commercial trawl used to sample deep-sea megabenthos. Fish Sci 1998, 64:492-493.
46. Sardà F., D'Onghia G., Politou C.Y., Company J.B., Maiorano P., Kapiris K. Deep-sea distribution, biological and ecological aspects of Aristeus antennatus (Risso, 1816) in the western and central Mediterranean Sea. Sci Mar 2004, 68:117-127.
47. Scheuhammer A.M., Meyer M.W., Sandheinrich M.B., Murray M.W. Effects of environmental methylmercury on the health of wild birds, mammals, and fish. Ambio 2007, 36:12-19.
48. Senn D.B., Chesney E.J., Blum J.D., Bank M.S., Maage A., Shine J.P. Stable isotope (N, C, Hg) study of methylmercury sources and trophic transfer in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Environ Sci Technol 2010, 44:1630-1637.
49. Storelli M.M., Giacominelli-Stuffler R., Marcotrigiano G.O. Total and methylmercury residues in cartilaginous fish from Mediterranean Sea. Mar Pollut Bull 2002, 44:1354-1358.
50. Tecchio S., Ramírez-Llodra E., Sardà F., Company J.B. Biodiversity of deep-sea demersal megafauna in western and central Mediterranean basins. Sci Mar 2011, 75:341-350.
51. Tecchio, S., van Oevelen, D., Soetaert, K., Moodley, L., Ramírez-Llodra, E., Sardà, S., in preparation. Increasing community niche width with depth and oligotrophy in deep-sea megabenthos.
52. UNEP/FAO/WHO Assessment of the state of pollution of the Mediterranean Sea by mercury and mercury compounds and proposed measures. MAP Tech. Rep. Ser. 18. UNEP/MAP, Athens 1987.
53. USEPA Mercury study report to congress. Office of air quality planning and standards and office of research and development, EPA 452/R-97-0003, Washington, DC 1997.
54. USFDA Consumer advisory: an important message for pregnant women and women of childbearing age who may become pregnant about the risks of mercury in fish 2002, US Federal Drug Administration, http://w.w.w.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/mercury/backgrounder.html.