Metallic Contamination of the Muscles of Three Fish Species from the Moulouya River (Lower Moulouya, Eastern Morocco)

Table 5

Comparisons of recorded trace metal levels in the muscles of the fish species during the present study with literature reported from different areas (mg/kg of wet weight).

Fish species	Region	Cd	Pb	Hg	References
Barbus meridionalis	Ripoll River in Catalonia (Spain)	0.0004	0.0092	0.2242	[15]
Barbus barbus and Anguilla anguilla	Sûre River (Luxembourg)	0.028, 0.021, resp.	0.034, 0.034, resp.	0.096, 0.317, resp.	[19]
Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, Carassius auratus, Coreius heterodon, and Silurus asotus	Yangtze River (China)	0.062, 0.132, 0.085, 0.115, resp.	0.529, 0.811, 0.53, 0.55, resp.	0.006, 0.0079, 0.005, 0.0304, resp.	[21]
Lepomis gibbosus	Šalek Lake (Slovenia)	<0.01	0.02	0.08	[17]
Cyprinus carpio, Carassius auratus gibelio, and Scardinius erythrophthalmus	Neretva river (Bosna and Herzegovina)	0.013, 0.045, 0.023, resp.	0.073, 0.055, 0.066, resp.	0.083, 0.050, 0.080, resp.	[23]
Pseudoplatystoma corruscans	Paraopeba River (Brazil)	0.07–0.19	0.94–3.31	0.35–0.41	[22]
Luciobarbus graellsii, and Lepomis gibbosus	Station 1 of Llobregat River (Spain)	0.007, 0.009, resp.	0.095, 0.078, resp.	—	[16]
Barbus callensis and Liza ramada	Loukkos river estuary (Morocco)	0.02, 0.02, resp.	0.06, 0.13, resp.	—	[18]
Perca flavescens	A range of lakes (Canada)	0.338–2.598	—	—	[20]
Micropterus salmoides	Sipsey River (USA)	—	—	0.87	[24]
Anguilla anguilla, Leuciscus cephalus cabeda, and Chondrostoma toxostoma	Cecina River (Italy)	—	—	0.82, 0.558, 0.65, resp.	[25]
Gambusia holbrooki	Fouarat Lake and Sebou estuary (Morocco)	—	0.0002–0.1967	—	[26]
Anguilla anguilla	Sebou estuary (Morocco)	—	0.00036	—	[27]