Organochlorine pesticides in two fish species from the southern Caspian Sea.

In the present research, we aimed to investigate organochlorine toxins accumulated in both Rutilus frisii kutum and Liza aurata captured at the southern Caspian Sea. At six sampling stations, organochlorine toxins were measured in fish tissues by the gas chromatography-electron capture detector (GC-ECD) method. Total organochlorine toxins ranged from 2.102 ppb to 9.033 ppb in L. aurata at the study area. The highest content of total organochlorine toxins was obtained at station 5, whereas the lowest content was achieved at station 4. In L. aurata, lindane showed the highest level among the measured components (1.642 ppb), whereas α-lindane showed the highest mean level of the measured components (0.57 ppb). In this investigation, the total amount of organochlorine compounds in R. frisii kutum was more than that in L. aurata, but these compounds indicated no significant difference between the two types of fishes (p > 0.05). Moreover, the measured components in both types of fishes were lesser than the allowable limit.

Different on the abundance of Pampus argenteus in Persian Gulf exceeding in variety comparing to Gulf of Oman.

Silver pomfret fish (Stromateidae) is a family of Perciformes order. One species of this family is Pampus argenteus known as silver pomfret and lives in different parts of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. Therefore, the genetic relationship between its populations is so important. In this study, eight samples of Pampus argenteus were collected from four locations involved: Emam Khomeyni, Bushehr and Bandar Abbas in Persian Gulf and Chabahar in Gulf of Oman. Cytochrome b gene and D-loop region of mitochondrial DNA on these samples are analyzed. These genes are carried out using PCR with specific mtDNA primers and sequenced. Then, the evolutionary history was inferred by using the maximum-likelihood method. Evolutionary analyses were conducted in MEGA7. According to the phylogenetic trees, with translocations in Persian Gulf to Gulf of Oman, similarity decreases slowly. Chabahar1 sample in phylogenetic tree of cytochrome b is phylogenetically near China Sea samples. The reason may be migration from ocean to gulf throughout the centuries and Chabahar is in Gulf of Oman and locationally near the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. In D-loop region, results are similar to cytochrome b excepting one sample (Emam Khomeyni1). D-Loop in samples shows modification more than cytochrome b for the reason absence of protein product.