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.
hashakir.zool@pu.edu.pk
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.