Table 3.

Comparison of present mean values in specimens with other studies result

Specimen/Fish Species	Area	Tissue	Pb (mg/kg)	Zn (mg/kg)	Mn (mg/kg)	Cd (mg/kg)
Yellowfin tuna, Kilka, Kawakawa, longtail tuna	Present Study	Muscle	0.02-5.50	4.05-36.22	0.02-1.40	0.00-0.27
Anguilla Anguilla, Mugil cephalus, Oreochromis niloticus	Turkeya	Muscle	0.21-1.45	34.76-134.76	2.34-18.97	0.04-0.23
		Liver	0.56-2.10	1.28-587.23	4.12-23.81	0.11-4.19
		Gills	0.23-2.36	1.28-169.87	4.39-753.74	0.01-0.52
Otolithes ruber, Pampus argenteus, Parastromateus niger, Scomberomorus commerson, Onchorynchus mykiss	Iranb	Muscle	0.007-0.075	0.005-0.40		0.001-0.45
		Liver	0.005-0.10	0.012-0.45		0.002-0.58
		Gills	0.031-0.11	0.03-0.062		0.004-0.09
Canned salmon, sardine and tuna fish	KSA c	Muscle	0.03-1.97	3.80-23.90		0.01-0.69
Canned fish	USAd		0.0-0.03	0.14-97.8	0.01-2.55	0.0-0.05
Canned sardines	Nigeriae			0.09-4.63	0.64-1.37	0.11-0.26
Canned tuna	Turkeyf, g, h		0.09-0.45	8.20-12.4		0.01-0.02
Canned tuna			0.09-0.45	8.20-12.40		0.01-0.02
Canned anchovies, canned rainbow trout			0.178	17.06		0.145
Canned tuna	Canadai		0.011-0.089			0.020-0.025

^aYilmaz [49]

^bSobhanardakani et al. [50, 51]

^cAshraf et al. [37]

^dIkem and Egeibo [38]

^eIwegbue et al. [25]

^fMol [5]

^gMol [6]

^hMol [7]

ⁱMahalakshmi et al. [11]