Dietary Toxicity of Selenium-Contaminated Red Shiners to Striped Bass
作者:
DavidJ. Coughlan,
JohnS. Velte,
期刊:
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
(Taylor Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 118,
issue 4
页码: 400-408
ISSN:0002-8487
年代: 1989
DOI:10.1577/1548-8659(1989)118<0400:DTOSRS>2.3.CO;2
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Red shinersNotropis lutrensis(weight, about 1 g each) from the selenium-affected areas of Belews Lake, North Carolina, a cooling reservoir for an electric power plant, were fed to striped bassMorone saxatilis(about 250 g each) in a laboratory experiment. Consumption of red shiners (whole-body selenium concentration, 9.6 μg Se/g wet weight) by striped bass was followed by modified behavior, little increase in weight, a reduced condition factor (105·weight/length3), an elevated selenium concentration in muscle (3.8 ug Se/g wet weight), histological damage to the liver and trunk kidney, and the death of all fish within 78 d. Striped bass fed a comparable, uncontaminated diet of golden shinersNotemigonus crysoleucas(about 1 g each) gained weight, increased their condition factor, had muscle selenium concentrations averaging 1.1 μg Se/g wet weight, and exhibited no histological abnormalities or reduced survival during the 80-d experiment. Toxicity and death induced by selenium-contaminated prey fish may contribute to the absence of piscivorous game fish in selenium-affected regions of Belews Lake.
点击下载:
PDF (1046KB)
返 回