Table 1.

Total concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (ΣPAHs) reported for Great Lakes biota

Species	Location	No. of PAHs measured	ΣPAH concentrations (ng/g wet wt)a	Reference
Fish
Lake trout	Lake Michigan	16 USEPA priority	Male: 0.56 ± 0.29 Female: 0.53± 0.18 Eggs: 0.30 ± 0.11	The present study
Lake trout	Lake Michigan Lake Superior	27 27	Lean: 1.52 ± 0.38 Fat/siscowet: 6.34 ± 0.94	[23]
Minnow	Calumet region of southwestern Lake Michigan	15 (16 USEPA priority excluding NAP)	10–350 (range)	[32]
Sunfish	Calumet region of southwestern Lake Michigan	15 (16 USEPA priority excluding NAP)	10–80 (range)	[32]
Alewife	Calumet region of southwestern Lake Michigan	15 (16 USEPA priority excluding NAP)	15–1064 (range)	[32]
Round goby	Calumet region of southwestern Lake Michigan	15 (16 USEPA priority excluding NAP)	55 (mean)	[32]
Yellow perch	Calumet region of southwestern Lake Michigan	15 (16 USEPA priority excluding NAP)	20 (mean)	[32]
Crayfish	Calumet region of southwestern Lake Michigan	15 (16 USEPA priority excluding NAP)	10–130 (range)	[32]
White sucker	Upstream and downstream of the Moses-Saunders power damb	33 (including 17 methyl PAHs)	Upstream: 16 ± 6 Downstream: 11 ± 6	[42]
Brown Bullhead	Lake Michigan tributaries St. Mary’s River tributary Lake Erie tributary	5 5 5	20–24 (range) 24 (mean) 220 (mean)	[41]
Invertebrates
Amphipod: Pontoporeia hoyi	Lake Michigan	7	4000–7000 (range)	[3]
Oligochaete worms	Lake Erie	8	300–400 (range)	[3]
Chironomid midges	Lake Erie	8	400–800 (range)	[3]
Bivalves: Zebra mussel	Detroit River and western Lake Erie	16 USEPA priority	12.6–8.7 (range)	[40]

^aData are given as mean ± standard deviation unless otherwise specified.

^bIn St. Lawrence River, near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, and Massena, New York, USA.