Screening for Organic Pollutants in the Black Sea Turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus)
The health of aquatic organisms can be affected due to anthropogenic activities and limited actions to reduce the pollution of the Black Sea. The accumulation of organic pollutants (OPs) in the aquatic environment occurs in water, sediment, and then biota. The turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus) is a be...
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ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/2410-3888/8/5/265/ 2023-08-20T04:10:15+02:00 Screening for Organic Pollutants in the Black Sea Turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus) Diana Danilov Lorena Dediu Nicoleta Alexandra Damir Valentina Coatu Luminita Lazar agris 2023-05-17 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes8050265 EN eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Environment and Climate Change https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fishes8050265 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Fishes; Volume 8; Issue 5; Pages: 265 organic pollutants turbot Black Sea fish tissue organochlorine pesticides polychlorinated biphenyls polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons Text 2023 ftmdpi https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes8050265 2023-08-01T10:06:37Z The health of aquatic organisms can be affected due to anthropogenic activities and limited actions to reduce the pollution of the Black Sea. The accumulation of organic pollutants (OPs) in the aquatic environment occurs in water, sediment, and then biota. The turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus) is a benthic fish of commercial interest scarcely studied in the Black Sea region, and none of the studies researched OP concentrations in its main tissues. In this paper, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and POPs, organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were determined in water, sediment, and turbot muscles, gills, gonads, and livers, to research their accumulation level. The determinations were made with gas chromatography on turbots sampled in 2021 from the Romanian Black Sea waters. OCPs—p,p’DDT and its metabolites p,p’DDE, p,p’DDD—are dominant in the turbot tissues. From PAHs, benzo(g,h, i)perylene was the dominant compound, while for PCBs it was PCB 52. The OPs’ presence in the wild turbot is due to river input, dredging and coastal rehabilitation works, industrial activities and contaminated food and poses a risk to human health due to the exceeding maximum allowable concentration for human consumption in Romania and the European Union. Text Turbot MDPI Open Access Publishing Fishes 8 5 265 |
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The health of aquatic organisms can be affected due to anthropogenic activities and limited actions to reduce the pollution of the Black Sea. The accumulation of organic pollutants (OPs) in the aquatic environment occurs in water, sediment, and then biota. The turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus) is a benthic fish of commercial interest scarcely studied in the Black Sea region, and none of the studies researched OP concentrations in its main tissues. In this paper, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and POPs, organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were determined in water, sediment, and turbot muscles, gills, gonads, and livers, to research their accumulation level. The determinations were made with gas chromatography on turbots sampled in 2021 from the Romanian Black Sea waters. OCPs—p,p’DDT and its metabolites p,p’DDE, p,p’DDD—are dominant in the turbot tissues. From PAHs, benzo(g,h, i)perylene was the dominant compound, while for PCBs it was PCB 52. The OPs’ presence in the wild turbot is due to river input, dredging and coastal rehabilitation works, industrial activities and contaminated food and poses a risk to human health due to the exceeding maximum allowable concentration for human consumption in Romania and the European Union. |
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Screening for Organic Pollutants in the Black Sea Turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus) |
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