Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Pacific salmon from the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Island, Northwest Pacific

Maksim M Donets; Vasiliy Yu Tsygankov; Alexandr N Gumovskiy; Yulia P Gumovskaya; Margarita D Boyarova; Olesya Yu Busarova; Anna V Litvinenko; Nadezhda K Khristoforova

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112498

Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Pacific salmon from the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Island, Northwest Pacific

Mar Pollut Bull. 2021 Aug:169:112498. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112498. Epub 2021 May 21.

Authors

Maksim M Donets¹, Vasiliy Yu Tsygankov², Alexandr N Gumovskiy², Yulia P Gumovskaya², Margarita D Boyarova², Olesya Yu Busarova³, Anna V Litvinenko⁴, Nadezhda K Khristoforova⁵

Affiliations

¹ Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), 10 Ajax Bay, Russky Island, Vladivostok 690922, Russia. Electronic address: donetc.mm@students.dvfu.ru.
² Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), 10 Ajax Bay, Russky Island, Vladivostok 690922, Russia.
³ Far Eastern State Technical Fisheries University (FESTU), 52B Lugovaya str., Vladivostok 690087, Russia.
⁴ Sakhalin State University (SSU), 33 Kommunistichesky ave., Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 693000, Russia.
⁵ Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), 10 Ajax Bay, Russky Island, Vladivostok 690922, Russia; Pacific Geographical Institute of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PGI FEB RAS), 7 Radio str., Vladivostok 690041, Russia.

PMID: 34023584
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112498

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to determine levels of POPs (dieldrin, endrin, HCH isomers, DDT metabolites, and PCB congeners) in organs of chum (Oncorhynchus keta), pink (O. gorbuscha), sockeye (O. nerka), masu (O. masou), and Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha), and to identify the patterns of toxicants' distribution in organisms and the environment of the northwestern Pacific. Principal component factor analysis showed that all the salmon species typically exhibit relationships between the PCB congeners and are characterized by a similar pattern of entry of PCBs 101, 118, and 153. The OCPs levels in the organs of Pacific salmon are decreasing from 2012 to 2018, which suggests the elimination of these toxicants from the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Keywords: Kamchatka Peninsula; OCPs; PCBs; Pacific salmon; Sakhalin Island.

MeSH terms

Animals
Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated* / analysis
Pacific Ocean
Pesticides* / analysis
Polychlorinated Biphenyls* / analysis
Salmon

Substances

Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated
Pesticides
Polychlorinated Biphenyls