Concentration dataset for 4 essential and 5 non-essential elements in fish collected in Arctic and sub-Arctic territories of the Nenets Autonomous and Arkhangelsk regions of Russia

Nikita Sobolev; Evert Nieboer; Andrey Aksenov; Tatiana Sorokina; Valery Chashchin; Dag G Ellingsen; Yulia Varakina; Elena Plakhina; Dmitry Kotsur; Anna Kosheleva; Yngvar Thomassen

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104631

Concentration dataset for 4 essential and 5 non-essential elements in fish collected in Arctic and sub-Arctic territories of the Nenets Autonomous and Arkhangelsk regions of Russia

Data Brief. 2019 Oct 18:27:104631. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104631. eCollection 2019 Dec.

Authors

Nikita Sobolev¹, Evert Nieboer², Andrey Aksenov¹, Tatiana Sorokina¹, Valery Chashchin^{1

3}, Dag G Ellingsen⁴, Yulia Varakina¹, Elena Plakhina¹, Dmitry Kotsur¹, Anna Kosheleva¹, Yngvar Thomassen^{1

3

5

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Affiliations

¹ Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M. V. Lomonosov, Arctic Biomonitoring Laboratory, Severnaya Dvina Emb. 17, 163002, Arkhangelsk, Russia.
² Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1, Canada.
³ Northwest Public Health Research Centre, 2-Sovetskaya str. 4, 191036, St. Petersburg, Russia.
⁴ National Institute of Occupational Health, P.O. Box 5330, Majorstua, N-0304, Oslo, Norway.
⁵ Norwegian University of Life Sciences, N-1432, Ås, Norway.
⁶ National Research University Higher School of Economics, Myasnitskaya str. 20, 101000, Moscow, Russia.

Abstract

The raw concentration data for the research article entitled "Essential and non-essential trace elements in fish consumed by indigenous peoples of the European Russian Arctic" (Sobolev et al., 2019) [1] are herein presented. Fifteen fish species were collected in the Nenets Autonomous and Arkhangelsk Regions of the Russian Federation and were analysed for 9 elements (As, Cd, Co, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, Se and Zn). The sampling sites were located in the European parts of the Russian Arctic and sub-Arctic territories. Within these territories, Nenets indigenous peoples commonly catch and consume local fish. Based on questionnaire data, local fish sources constituted ∼ 90% of the total fish consumed by endemic individuals living in these regions. The data summarized in this publication fill a gap in knowledge.

Keywords: Essential and toxic elements; Indigenous people; Russian Arctic.