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Bioaccumulation of Metals in Fishes’ Scales – A Reliable Non-Lethal Assessor of Food Security

Bioaccumulation of Metals in Fishes’ Scales – A Reliable Non-Lethal Assessor of Food Security

Hafiz Abdullah Shakir1*, Javed Iqbal Qazi2, Abdul Shakoor Chaudhry2, Muhammad Irfan3, Muhammad Khan1, Shaukat Ali4 and Saima Shahzad Mirza5 

1Department of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore-54590, Pakistan; 2School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom; 3Department of Biotechnology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan; 4Department of Zoology, Govt. College University, Lahore, Pakistan; 5Punjab Bioenergy Institute, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.

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Figure 1

Map of the Ravi River Lahore showing the four sampling sites around major urban pollution inlets of Lahore (Shakir et al., 2013a, Shakir and Qazi, 2013). 

Table 2

Mean concentrations (µg/g dry weight) of metal bioaccumulation in scale of carps sampled from different sites of the river Ravi. 

Sarhad Journal of Agriculture

December

Pakistan J. Zool., Vol. 56, Iss. 6, pp. 2501-3000

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