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Mercury contaminated fish at the wreck of U-864
Fisheries
Seafood Processing
Mercury content in fish and other seafood at the wreck of U-864 west of Fedje
National Programme
National
Sylvia Frantzen
sfr@nifes.no
NIFES - National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (Norway)
NA - Not available (Not available), 
2010
NA
€ NA
NA
The submarine U864 were sunk by a torpedo in 1945. It was later known that it had a cargo of probably 70 tons of mercury. Sediments near the wreck are shown to be heavily contaminated by mercury. Since the finding of the wreck in 2003 a program of monitoring seafood in the vicinity of the sunken submarine has been developed. Presently, three stations south of, at the site and north of the submarine is sampled for ambient seafood species, which has shown to be crab and tusk. Even though the mercury levels in brown meat of crab is slightly higher that for other stations it is far below the EU limit of 0,5 mg Hg/kg. Further, concentrations of mercury in fillet of tusk (Brome brome) and claw meat of crab (Cancer pagers) also show relatively low levels of mercury compared to the maximum level of these seafood given by EU. Sediments near the wreck are shown to be heavily contaminated by mercury. Concentrations of mercury in fillet of tusk (Brosme brosme) and claw meat of crab (Cancer pagurus) show relatively low levels of mercury compared to the maximum level of these seafood given by EU.
Seafood; Crustacean; Tusk; Fish; Toxic substances; Crab; Shellfish; Food safety;
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
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