title: Monitoring of PAHs and alkylated PAHs in aquatic organisms after 1 month from the Solar I oil spill off the coast of Guimaras Island, Philippines.
abstract: Following the oil spill accident of the Solar I tanker in 2006 off the coast of Guimaras Island in the Philippines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and alkylated PAHs in some aquatic organisms were investigated at Luzaran in Guimaras and Taklong Islands, which were heavily polluted with spilled oil, immediately and 1 month after the accident. The concentrations of total PAHs were 11.9-52.3 ng/g dry weight in fish. Meanwhile, total PAH concentrations in shellfish were 38.0-3,102 ng/g dry weight in Luzaran and 128-236 ng/g dry weight in Taklong. Pyrene, phenanthrene, and fluoranthene were dominant in most fish and chrysene in all shellfish. Significantly higher concentrations of all alkylated homologs were detected in shellfish than in fish. These differences had two possible causes, that is, the differences between fish and shellfish could be attributed to the uptake routes and/or their metabolizing abilities.
authors.affiliation: Education and Research Center for Marine Resources and Environment, Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University, 50-20 Shimoarata 4-Chome, Kagoshima, Japan. uno@fish.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Seiichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uno
authors.forename: Jiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koyama
authors.forename: Emiko
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kokushi
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Monteclaro
authors.forename: Sheryll
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Santander
authors.forename: J Orkuma
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Cheikyula
authors.forename: Shizuho
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miki
authors.forename: Nathaniel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Añasco
authors.forename: Ida G
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Pahila
authors.forename: Hilario S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Taberna
authors.forename: Tatsuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuoka
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational; D000818:Animals; D002911:Chrysenes / Q000378:metabolism; D005399:Fishes / Q000378:metabolism*; D005449:Fluorenes / Q000378:metabolism; D010578:Petroleum / Q000378:metabolism*; D010616:Phenanthrenes / Q000378:metabolism; D010679:Philippines; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000378:metabolism*; D011721:Pyrenes / Q000378:metabolism; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002911:Chrysenes; D005449:Fluorenes; D010578:Petroleum; D010616:Phenanthrenes; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; D011721:Pyrenes; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; C031180:chrysene; C007738:fluoranthene; C031181:phenanthrene; C030984:pyrene