Effect of Sediments on Bioaccumulation of Mercury in Fish Body in the Water-Level-Fluctuating Zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area

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作者：
Sun S. [1 ]
Li C.-X. [1 ]
Zhang C. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Wang Y.-M. [1 ]
Wang D.-Y. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构：
[1] College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing
[2] Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Non-point Source Pollution Control in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, Chongqing
[3] Chongqing Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Chongqing
来源：
Huanjing Kexue/Environmental Science | 2017年 / 38卷 / 04期
关键词：
Fish; Mercury; Methylmercury; Sediment; Three Gorges Reservoir area; Water-level-fluctuating zone;
D O I：
10.13227/j.hjkx.201609006
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摘要：
Mercury (Hg) in the aquatic environment is easy to accumulate in fish. In order to study the effect of the sediments on Hg accumulation in fish in the water-level-fluctuation zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir, we conducted a 90-days simulated flooding experiment by using the sediments with different concentrations of Hg. Our study showed that the concentrations of the total mercury (THg) and methyl mercury (MeHg) in the overlying water increased after flooding, and the concentrations in the muscle of fish kept increasing in the period of experiment, the concentrations in the viscera and head increased in the earlier period but seemingly decreased in the later period. The bioaccumulated Hg content in the fresh was higher than that in the viscera and head, between which there was no significant difference. Compared with the control group (no sediment), the presence of sediments obviously increased the content of Hg bioaccumulated in fish, and the bioaccumulated Hg level increased with the Hg concentrations in sediment. The THg and MeHg in different fish parts presented a similar variation trend with the BCF ranging 1.93×105-8.89×105 for MeHg and 1.3×103-12.8×103 for inorganic mercury, indicating that MeHg was more prone to accumulate in fish. The MeHg in fish was significantly related with THg, and accumulated MeHg occupied about 80.1% (muscle), 79.3% (visceral) and 66.7% (head) of increased THg. After the reflooding of the sediment in the water-level-fluctuating zone, net methylation could occur with MeHg as the product, and then MeHg would diffuse to overlay water, further increasing the Hg bioaccumulation in fish. Therefore, the potential pollution risk of Hg in the water-level-fluctuationg zone with large area of the Three Gorges Reservoir cannot be ignored. © 2017, Science Press. All right reserved.
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