Mercury levels in selected bycatch fish species from industrial shrimp-trawl fishery in the SE Gulf of California

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2857-2859

  Ruelas Inzunza, Jorge ^a   Sánchez Osuna, Karla ^a   Amezcua Martínez, Felipe ^b   Spanopoulos Zarco, Pamela ^c   Manzano Luna, Lucero ^b  

^a Environmental Section   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE SONORA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Mercury; SE Gulf of California; Shrimp fishery bycatch

Indexed keywords

BY-CATCH; FISH SPECIES; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; HG CONCENTRATIONS; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY LEVELS; WET WEIGHT;

MERCURY (METAL); MUSCLE; SHELLFISH;

FISHERIES;

MERCURY;

BYCATCH; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SHRIMP FISHERY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATED FISH; DIAPTERUS PERUVIANUS; FISH; LIVER LEVEL; MUSCLE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; OPHIOSCION STRABO; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPECIES COMPARISON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRAWL FISHERY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHERIES; FISHES; MERCURY; MEXICO; MUSCLES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIAPTERUS PERUVIANUS; OPHIOSCION;

EID: 84870240115     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.08.024     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Agah H., Leermakers M., Elskens M., Fatemi S.M.R., Baeyens W. Total mercury and methyl mercury concentrations in fish from the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Water Air Soil Pollut. 2007, 181:95-105.
2. Agusa T., Kunito T., Sudaryanto A., Monirith I., Kan-Atireklap S., Iwata H., Ismail A., Sanguansin J., Muchtar M., Tana T.S., Tanabe S. Exposure assessment for trace elements from consumption of marine fish in southeast Asia. Environ. Pollut. 2007, 145(3):766-777.
3. Amezcua-Linares F. Los peces demersales de la plataforma continental del Pacífico central de México 1990, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Tesis de Doctorado en Ciencias del Mar.
4. Cabello A.M., Martínez Z., Villegas L.V., Figuera B.E., Marcano L.A., Gómez A., Vallenilla O. Fauna acompañante del camarón como materia prima para la elaboración de productos pesqueros. Zoot. Trop. 2005, 23(3):217-230.
5. Clarkson T.W., Magos L. The toxicology of mercury and its chemical compounds. Crit. Rev. Toxicol. 2006, 36:609-622.
6. Fitzgerald W.F., Lamborg C.H., Hammerschmidt C.R. Marine biogeochemical cycling of mercury. Chem. Rev. 2007, 107:641-662.
7. Hylander L.D., Meili M. 500 years of mercury production: global annual inventory by region until 2000 and associated emissions. Sci. Tot. Environ. 2003, 304:13-27.
8. López-Martínez, J., Morales-Bojórquez, E., Paredes-Mallón, F., Lluch-Belda, D., Cervantes-Valle, C., 2001. La pesquería de camarón de altamar en Sonora, In: Lluch-Belda, D., Elorduy-Garay, J., Lluch-Cota, S., Ponce-Díaz, G. (Eds.), Centros de Actividad Biológica (BACs) en el Noroeste de México. CIBNOR-CICIMAR-CONACYT, La Paz, B.C.S., México, pp. 301-312.
9. Madrid-Vera J., Amezcua F., Morales-Bojórquez E. An assessment approach to estimate biomass of fish communities from bycatch data in a tropical shrimp-trawl fishery. Fish. Res. 2007, 83:81-89.
10. Magalhães M.C., Costa V., Menezes G.M., Pinho M.R., Santos R.S., Monteiro L.R. Intra- and inter-specific variability in total and methylmercury bioaccumulation by eight marine fish species from the Azores. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 2007, 54:1654-1662.
11. Moody J.R., Lindstrom P.M. Selection and cleaning of plastic containers for storage of trace element samples. Anal. Chem. 1977, 49:2264-2267.
12. Mora C., Robertson D. Causes of latitudinal gradients in species richness: a test with fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Ecology 2005, 86:1771-1792.
13. Nauen C.E. Compilation of legal limits for hazardous substances in fish and fishery products. FAO Fish. Circ. 1983, 764:1-102.
14. Rábago-Quiroz C.H., López-Martínez J., Herrera-Valdivia E., Nevarez-Martínez M.O., Rodríguez-Romero J. Population dynamics and spatial distribution of flatfish species in shrimp trawl bycatch in the Gulf of California. Hydrobiology 2008, 18:193-202.
15. Ruelas-Inzunza J., Meza-López G., Páez-Osuna F. Mercury in fish that are of dietary importance from the coasts of Sinaloa (SE Gulf of California). J. Food Comp. Anal. 2008, 21:211-218.
16. UNEP, 1993. Guidelines for monitoring chemical contaminants in the sea using marine organisms. Reference methods for marine pollution studies, No. 6.