Heavy Metal Concentration in Fish Tissues Inhabiting Water of "Busko Blato" Reservoar (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Heavy metals concentration in tissues of Dalmatian barbelgudgeon, the nase, the souffle and brown trout, inhabiting waters of Busko Blato reservoir in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is determined. Meat of the fish sorts inhabiting waters of Busko Blato does not contain elevated concentration of most analyz...

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Published inEnvironmental monitoring and assessment Vol. 144; no. 1; p. 15
Main Authors Has-Schon, Elizabeta, Bogut, Ivan, Kralik, Gordana, Bogut, Stjepan, Horvatic, Janja, Cacic, Ivan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.09.2008
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Summary:Heavy metals concentration in tissues of Dalmatian barbelgudgeon, the nase, the souffle and brown trout, inhabiting waters of Busko Blato reservoir in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is determined. Meat of the fish sorts inhabiting waters of Busko Blato does not contain elevated concentration of most analyzed heavy metals with exception of lead and mercury. Concentration of most heavy metals is tissue and sex dependent. The souffle can be proposed as a suitable biomonitor fish for elevated copper concentration detection, because of its tendency to cumulate the metal in liver tissue. Elevated cadmium concentration in kidneys and liver of all fish sorts analyzed may be the consequence of torrents which wash off the surrounding agricultural areas as well as of groundwater polluted by waste water from distant settlements.
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ISSN:0167-6369