Total Aromatic Hydrocarbon Content in the Muscle and Liver Lipid Extracts of Two Seabream Fishes from the Arabian Gulf PDF

Keywords

muscles, liver, seabream fishes

Abstract

Concentrations of total aromatic hydrocarbons (TAHC) were determined in two seabream fishes from the Family Sparidae, longspine seabream, Argyrops spinifer (Kofar) and Mylio bifasciatus (Faskar) from the eastern and southeastern coats of Qatar. Levels of total hydrocarbons in the muscle and liver tissues of Argyrops sp. were lower than those in Mylio sp. Variations in TAHC with size were very slight in Argyrops sp. while Mylio sp. showed significant variations in both muscle and liver tissues. The hydrocarbons contained, in the two fishes displayed, high aromatic concentrations correlated with increasing fat content. Mean concentrations of total aromatic hydrocarbons in the muscle and liver tissues of Argyrops sp. were 24.5 and 23.7 µg/g while in Mylio sp. they were 53.4 and 41.1 µg/g wet weight chrysene equivalents respectively.