Skip to main content

Table 7 Measured concentrations (in µg/kg, dry weight) of PAHs, PCBs, PBDEs, polycyclic musk compounds, DDE and MTCS in fish tissues and sediment samples of the Argen River

From: Water quality assessment in the “German River of the years 2014/2015”: how a case study on the impact of a storm water sedimentation basin displayed impairment of fish health in the Argen River (Southern Germany)

Species/sediment

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Barbel (Barbus barbus)

Loach (Barbatula barbatula)

Loach and bullhead (Barbatula barbatula; Cottus gobio)

Sediment

Sampling site/compound

U1

D1

U3

D3

U4

D4

U5

D5

U5

D5

Naphthalene

26.99*

6.26

17.43

8.97

25.16*

31.78*

10.25

52.70*

2.80

4.30

Acenaphthene

0.83

0.68

0.93

1.12

1.35

1.98

1.07

1.25

1.40

2.10

ACENAPHTHYLENE

1.09

0.64

0.68

0.97

0.88

1.24

0.54

0.66

1.10

1.00

Fluorene

5.10

2.61

2.94

2.25

1.97

2.82

1.28

1.42

2.50

2.40

Phenanthrene

16.14

8.75

17.94

12.85

15.37

17.34

12.10

6.94

21.00

28.20

Anthracene

1.67

0.88

2.45

1.97

1.55

4.21

1.35

1.21

3.50

6.40

Fluoranthene

5.70

3.61

6.14

5.28

5.95

7.84

6.85

5.45

35.40

45.80

Pyrene

5.22

3.62

5.56

3.97

5.38

6.97

6.42

4.98

32.10

39.70

Benz[a]-anthracene

0.50

0.44

0.53

0.48

0.61

0.71

0.97

0.65

16.30

14.70

Chrysene

0.46

0.43

0.41

0.37

0.52

0.68

1.52

0.50

18.90

20.30

Benzo[b]-fluoranthene

0.40

0.33

0.38

0.31

0.32

0.28

0.42

0.39

15.4

21.9

Benzo[k]-fluoranthene

0.33

0.26

0.29

0.27

0.29

0.31

0.34

0.38

10.1

16.2

Benzo[a]-pyrene

0.32

0.23

0.24

0.26

0.24

0.21

0.19

0.18

10.8

15.5

Indeno[123-cd]-pyrene

0.14

0.14

0.14

0.11

0.13

0.15

0.14

0.21

4.50

5.80

Benzo[ghi]-perylene

0.16

0.17

0.17

0.15

0.16

0.21

0.19

0.25

5.90

7.50

Dibenzo[ah]-anthracene

0.05

0.05

0.05

0.05

0.05

0.05

0.05

0.05

2.70

2.50

HHCB

19.14

7.86

25.71

16.74

18.99

13.5

12.9

5.78

4.90

3.70

AHTN

6.57

3.96

9.75

8.34

12.43

6.42

6.80

2.38

3.40

2.80

MTCS

1.24

0.21

1.15

0.64

0.98

1.14

1.51

0.97

1.40

0.90

DDE

4.30

3.18

3.75

4.14

4.11

3.66

4.83

3.82

0.90

0.80

PCB-28

2.33

2.66

1.71

1.59

2.20

1.10

0.90

1.90

0.52

0.61

PCB-52

1.53

1.61

0.95

1.31

0.90

1.20

1.10

0.80

0.33

0.28

PCB-101

0.90

1.58

0.72

0.45

2.30

2.80

2.40

1.30

0.45

0.51

PCB-118

0.90

1.58

0.72

0.45

0.60

0.90

0.50

0.40

0.23

0.22

PCB-138

3.99

2.70

3.58

3.21

3.70

4.90

3.50

3.10

0.71

0.62

PCB-153

4.49

3.10

3.80

3.55

4.30

5.20

3.70

3.20

0.75

0.68

PCB-180

1.09

1.00

0.90

0.78

1.10

1.00

1.20

0.80

0.52

0.56

Sum PBDE

1.45*

1.64*

2.37*

1.47*

1.59*

1.55*

4.62*

1.33*

0.69

0.78

  1. Values marked with an asterisk (*) indicate concentrations that exceeded the environmental quality standards of the European Parliament [26]