Research Article
Levels of Organochlorine Pesticides in Brackish Water Fish from Niger River, Nigeria
Table 3
Organochlorine pesticide (HCH) levels in brackish fish (µg/kg fresh weight).
| | Fish Species/ Number | α-HCH | β-HCH | γ-HCH | δ-HCH |
| | Drapane Africana | 36.73±28.85
(7.88-65.58) | 142±56.74
(85.52-199.0) | 89.37±26.63
(62.75-166.0) | 89.42±29.58
(59.84-119) | | Mochokus Niloticus | 13.15±9.27
(0.72-26.43) | 64.93±80.53
(2.79-226.0) | 30.90±27.36
(4.97-85.63) | 53.87±25.75
(5.96-81.32) |
| | Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus | 35.04±3.69
(29.50-39.32) | 93.71±44.18
(33.7-160) | 29.53±30.80
(BDL-75.74) | 119±100
(39.29-271) | | Pristipoma jubelini | 23.91±12.33
(10.58-38.55) | 42.39±10.34
(25.21-52.56) | 9.08±4.33
(2.33-9.86) | 73.85±21.89
(48.36-99.45) | | Vomer Septapinis | 36.47±8.21
(20.83-54.26) | 101±67.62
(43.14-271) | 25.11±24.46
(BDL-64.68) | 96.06±56.34
(19.24-197) | | Pseudotolithus senegalensis | 34.02±1.65
(16.35-54.26) | 64.46±21.33
(46.80-163.0) | 39.43±25.25
(25.43-46.7) | 88.71±47.29
(19.24-125.0) |
| | Mugil cephalus | 55.26±5.70
(44.65-66.29) | 148±105
(59.96-360.0) | 49.30±27.34
(19.71-104.0) | 114±81.34
(16.9-248.0) | | Pseudotolithus elongatus | 34.53±23.32
(2.34-61.91) | 151±130
(4.02-490.0) | 32.67±32.24
(BDL-74.03) | 93.75±94.12
(BDL-282.0) | | Lutjanus goreensis | 38.5±17.2
(22.2-56.3) | 127.4±14.0
(114.8-140.0) | 79.0±8.00
(70.0-87.5) | 82.5±49.3
(33.5-132.0) | | Sphyraena piscatorum | 34.1±13.1
(18.1-52.6) | 122.0±9.00
(109.5-135.8) | 74.8±4.67
(65.0-82.0) | 78.4±45.3
(28.2-129.0) |
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