Mercury accumulation of yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacores, in Seychelles, Indian Ocean / 印度洋賽席爾群島海域黃鰭鮪汞濃度蓄積之研究

碩士 / 國立中山大學 / 海洋生物科技暨資源學系研究所 / 98 / Ninty three yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, the fork length ranged from 80 to 168 cm were collected from the waters around Seychelles by two longline fishing vessels from April to December in 2006. The muscle and liver samples were analyzed for total mercury (THg) and organic mercury (OHg) concentrations.The concentrations of THg and OHg of the muscle were similar to previous studies.

The concentrations of THg and OHg form the muscles and livers were positive-linearly regressed with the fish of Fork Length larger than 113 cm (big fish group), but only THg concentration of muscle was negative- linearly regressed 80- 112 cm (small fish group). Such patterns were first found in yellowfin tuna. It might be related to the “growth rate” .

Only one THg concentration of liver were over the standard set by the European Commission Decision (1 mg / kg THg wet wt.), other samples were in accordance with standard set by the European Commission Decision and the US-FDA food safty standard (1 mg / kg MeHg wet wt.). According to the dietary recommendations set by the Department of Health, Executive Yuan, yellowfin tuna can replace 86% animal protein source per week of people.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/098NSYS5270050
Date January 2010
CreatorsHsin-hsien Li, 李信賢
ContributorsMeng-Hsien Chen, Chiee-Young Chen, 陳孟仙, 陳志遠
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format82

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