Table 4.
Heavy metal and metalloid pollution of fishes from Bangladesh rivers (mg/kg).
| City | River | Sampling Time | Sample site | Species/Local name | As | Pb | Cd | Cr | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhaka | Buriganga | August to September 2013 | Kamrangir Char and Amin Bazar | Puntius ticto | 0.32 ± 0.01 | 3.05 ± 0.09 | 0.02 ± 0.00 | 5.54 ± 1.52 | [12] |
| Puntius sophore | 0.19 ± 0.01 | 3.16 ± 0.08 | 0.02 ± 0.00 | 4.33 ± 1.35 | |||||
| Puntius chola | 0.17 ± 0.00 | 2.32 ± 0.08 | 0.01 ± 0.00 | 3.57 ± 1.60 | |||||
| Labeo rohita | 0.73 ± 0.03 | 6.98 ± 0.23 | 0.04 ± 0.00 | 18.84 ± 1.72 | |||||
| Glossogobius giuris | 0.20 ± 0.01 | 1.77 ± 0.10 | 0.01 ± 0.00 | 5.13 ± 0.96 | |||||
| Dhaka | Buriganga | Pre-monsoon period | Balughat, Shawaryghat and Foridabad | Gudusia chapra (chapila) | NA | 9.12 | 0.83 | 6.27 | [63] |
| Glossogobius giuris (baila) | NA | 9.58 | 0.81 | 6.13 | |||||
| Cirrhinus reba (tatkeni) | NA | 8.03 | 0.76 | 6.75 | |||||
| Channa punctatus (taki) | NA | 10.31 | 0.86 | 5.73 | |||||
| Mystus vittatus (tengra) | NA | 12.32 | 1.09 | 5.47 | |||||
| Pseudeutropius atherinoides | NA | 8.95 | 0.95 | 7.34 | |||||
| Chittagong | Karnaphuli | February to April during 2013 | Fishery ghat, Chaktikhal, Mojjartek, Kalurghateast zone and Kalurghat west zone | Poua | NA | 0.886 | 0.066 | 0.569 | [13] |
| Chring | NA | 1.843 | 0.744 | 1.077 | |||||
| Rita | NA | 2.861 | 0.179 | 0.064 | |||||
| Chapila | NA | 7.707 | 0.483 | 0.099 | |||||
| Narayangong | Meghna | January 2016 (winter season) | Effluent discharge area | Tanualosa ilisha | NA | 0.67 | 0.092 | 0.05 | [77] |
| Colisa chuna | NA | 0.11 | NA | 1.6 | |||||
| Labeo calbasu | NA | 1.91 | NA | 1.12 | |||||
| Labeo rohita | NA | NA | 0.04 | 0.57 | |||||
| Stinging catfish | NA | 1.56 | NA | 3.01 | |||||
| Colisa lalia | NA | 6.75 | NA | NA | |||||
| Potuakhali | Paira | February–March and August−September 2012 | NA | Cyprinus carpio (Koi) | 0.25 ± 0.049 | 0.81 ± 0.17 | 0.025 ± 0.004 | 0.78 ± 0.28 | [74] |
| Heteropneustes fossilis (Shing) | 0.27 ± 0.059 | 0.92 ± 0.32 | 0.016 ± 0.012 | 0.97 ± 0.26 | |||||
| Colisa fasciata (Kholisha) | 0.18 ± 0.022 | 0.52 ± 0.30 | 0.019 ± 0.011 | 0.70 ± 0.33 | |||||
| Channa striata (Shoil) | 0.25 ± 0.060 | 0.78 ± 0.27 | 0.020 ± 0.010 | 0.69 ± 0.17 | |||||
| Notopterus notopterus (Foli) | 0.25 ± 0.057 | 0.82 ± 0.36 | 0.022 ± 0.017 | 1.1 ± 0.31 | |||||
| Tenualosa ilisha (Hilsha) | 0.51 ± 0.18 | 0.51 ± 0.47 | 0.17 ± 0.19 | 0.48 ± 0.22 | |||||
| Corica soborna (Kachki) | 0.37 ± 0.26 | 0.58 ± 0.42 | 0.20 ± 0.20 | 0.44 ± 0.34 | |||||
| Standards | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.0 | [78] |
Notes: NA, not applicable/reported. For metals and metalloids concentrations, some values were with standard errors.