Effect of heavy metals on fish--a review.
Heavy metals are being utilized in a variety of ways in industries, agriculture, food processing and household in many forms. Metals are unique environmental and industrial pollutants in the sense that they are neither created nor destroyed by human beings but are only transported and transformed into various products. The present communication deals with the findings of various investigators on the effect of heavy metals on fresh water fish.
D000818:Animals; D001151:Arsenic / Q000633:toxicity; D020261:Arsenic Poisoning; D002857:Chromium / Q000633:toxicity; D003300:Copper / Q000633:toxicity; D005399:Fishes / Q000378:metabolism*; D008670:Metals / Q000633:toxicity*; D014873:Water Pollutants / Q000633:toxicity*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000633:toxicity*; D015032:Zinc / Q000633:toxicity
D008670:Metals; D014873:Water Pollutants; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D002857:Chromium; D003300:Copper; D015032:Zinc; D001151:Arsenic