Chronic PAH exposures and associated declines in fish health indices observed for ten grouper species in the Gulf of Mexico

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment Vol. 703; p. 135551
• Main Authors: Pulster, Erin L., Gracia, Adolfo, Armenteros, Maickel, Carr, Brigid E., Mrowicki, Justin, Murawski, Steven A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 10.02.2020; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Animals; bile; biomarkers; biometry; Chronic exposure; coasts; Cuba; Deepwater Horizon; Environmental Monitoring; fish health; Fishes; Fishes - physiology; Florida; fluorescence; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; Grouper; Gulf of Mexico; Hepatobiliary; high performance liquid chromatography; infrastructure; Life Sciences; liver; Marine Biology; metabolites; oil spills; oils; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons - metabolism; Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons - toxicity; runoff; tandem mass spectrometry; Toxicity Tests, Chronic; traffic; Water Pollutants, Chemical; Water Pollutants, Chemical - metabolism; Water Pollutants, Chemical - toxicity; Gulf of Mexico; Florida; Cuba; Grouper; Hepatobiliary; Gulf of Mexico; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Deepwater Horizon; Chronic exposure

Ten grouper species grouper (n = 584) were collected throughout the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) from 2011 through 2017 to provide information on hepatobiliary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. Liver and bile samples were analyzed...