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Kim: Trophic transfer of organochlorine pesticides through food-chain in coastal marine ecosystem

Abstract

The present study was designed to characterize the bioaccumulation of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in marine organisms (zooplankton, oyster, crab, and goby) on different trophic level. In the present study, sedentary bivalve (oyster) showed strong correlations in OCPs levels with surface sediment in the study area. This indicates the two compartments can be used as alternative for pollution monitoring of OCPs even in narrow scale in space. Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of OCPs was strongly associated with their hydrophobicity (i.e., KOW). HCHs with log KOW < 5 did not show any enrichment through food-chain. However, log BAF values of OCPs with log KOW > 5 positioned over the 1:1 lines of log BAF and log KOW of the top predator, indicating the greater fugacities in the higher trophic level and thus the occurrence of biomagnification via ingestion. Based on trophic transfer factors (TTF), more hydrophobic OCPs with log KOW > 5 were enriched by several to several ten times in the highest trophic level relative to the lowest trophic level. This finding can be used in the establishment of marine environmental water quality criteria by considering biomagnification factors (TTF in this study) of OCPs.

1. Introduction

Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) have been categorized to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) which is controlled under the international convention [1]. These OCPs, legacy POPs, have been considered to be well controlled and thus nearly phased out in real environment in Korea because their sale and use had been prohibited several ten years ago [2]. Recently, OCPs became a big issue in Korea because DDTs over environmental guideline were found in Korean poultry and soils. This social issue raises awareness of that OCP contamination is still unsolved in Korea.
The pollutants categorized in “POPs” represent that they are persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic. Particularly, bioaccumulative property is an important factor when establishing environmental quality guideline as organism in higher trophic level including human can be exposed to enriched amount through food-chain [35]. Bioaccumulation means the phenomenon that body residue of pollutants exceeds the concentration in surrounding environment and occurs through all exposure routes including respiration and diet ingestion [67]. As a special case, biomagnification means the enhancement of pollutants over the thermodynamic equilibrium with surrounding water in aquatic environment and is derived by ingesting contaminated diet [8]. Bioaccumulation and biomagnificaiton is a critical factor in establishing the environmental guideline such as water and sediment criteria. To identify the bioaccumulation and biomagnification of substances, several indices such as bioconcentration factor (BCF), bioaccumulation factor (BAF), and biomagnification factor (BMF) has been suggested [9].
In an earlier work of Kim et al. [10], the characteristics of OCP contamination of sediment and seawater were investigated in Incheon North Harbor basin, which was one of the most contaminated sites in Korea. The present work focuses on the contamination of biota and examines the occurrence of trophic transfer and its characteristics as influenced by main OCP uptake route, the presence/absence of superhydrophobicity in trophic transfer and bioaccumulation of OCPs, and the degree of bioaccumulation with respect to equilibrium with seawater. We investigated OCPs in selected marine species, including zooplankton (primarily Paracalanus spp. and Acartia spp.), pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas (C. gigas)), shore crab (Hemigrapsus penicillatus (H. penicillatus)), and goby (Acanthogobius hasta (A. hasta)), to address these questions. These organisms were selected because they were plentiful and represent different trophic positions in the aquatic ecosystem.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Study Area

Incheon North Harbor is a part of the Kyeonggi Bay (Fig. 1). The details of the study area were described in a previous study [10]. In brief, the harbor has mainly supported anchoring for fishing and transport vessels as well as various industrial activities. The harbor basin with a total area of 5 km2 has a width of 1 km from inner to outer part of the harbor. A major water channel in the harbor basin, formed by by tidal currents and intermittent dredging operations, is connected with several tributary waterways for wastewater discharge. A wide tidal zone has been developed by high tidal range (8–10 m) in this area where its overall slope is less than 1%. Strong semi-diurnal tidal currents (1.2–2.3 m/s and 0.9–1.9 m/s during neap tide and spring tide, respectively) run between Youngjong Island and the harbor. Seawater in the harbor basin flows to south during neap tide. Conversely, the spring tide flowing to north fills in the harbor basin.
Many environmental pollution sources have been in operation around the harbor area including a thermoelectric power plant in the north, an industrial complex including steel-manufacturers and pulp factories in the south, and a municipal wastewater treatment plant in the east. The wastewater treatment plant and the industrial complex discharge their wastewaters into the harbor basin through Gajwa Wastewater Storage Reservoir (GWSR) and Gajwa stream, respectively.

2.2. Sample Collection

The sampling locations for target marine organisms and seawater are shown in Fig. 1. The partitioning and spatial distribution characteristics of OCPs in abiotic media including surface sediment and suspended particulate matter were described in previous studies of the same study area [11, 12]. So, the present study focusing on biotic media was also designed to validate and compare with the distribution features of OCPs in abiotic media.
Zooplankton samples (primarily Paracalanus spp. and Acartica spp.) were collected using a Bongo net with a 333-μm mesh with horizontal tows for 10 min at 2 knots at inner and outer parts of the harbor (near W2, W3 and W4 in Fig. 1). After removing excess water via filtration through a 333-μm mesh and centrifugation for 10 min at 1,500 rpm, the bulk samples were homogenized and analyzed. Oyster (C. gigas) as a filter-feeder, shore crab (H. penicillatus) as benthic feeder, and goby (A. hasta) as a pelagic feeder were collected with an iron chisel, by hand picking, and by fishing, respectively, near sites W2 and W3. All samples were collected in pre-cleaned amber glass jars or wrapped in combustion-cleaned aluminum foil, then immediately frozen and transported to the laboratory. Approximately 15 g of soft wet tissue were used for analysis of oyster (n = 25) and crab (n = 20 for male and n = 30 for female). For two sizes of goby (12.9 ± 0.5 cm, n=7; 16.4 ± 1.0 cm, n = 9), we collected and analyzed muscle tissues.

2.3. Chemical Analysis

15 L of water sample was filtered with pre-extracted glass-fiber filters (0.7 μm). Dissolved water of every 1 L was extracted with 120 mL of methylene chloride (pesticide grade, Burdick & Jackson) in 2 L glass funnel, to which surrogate standards were added. Extraction was repeated totally three times by shaking with KM shaker (Iwaki Sangyo Co., LTD., Japan) at 200 spm for 10 min. After combined, all of extracts were dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate and finally concentrated to 2 mL after solvent exchange with hexane.
The tissue samples (15 g) were ground with a Tekmar tissuemizer (Cincinnati, OH, USA) and extracted in a 200-mL glass tube. Both 50 g of sodium sulfate and 100 mL dichloromethane were then added to this tube. The extraction was repeated twice with fresh dichloromethane. Additional details regarding the extraction and cleanup procedures of biota and water samples and of gas chromatography are available elsewhere [1012].
OCP measured in this study includes four group: Hexavchlorobenzene (HCBz), hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs; sum of alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and delta-isomers), chlorodanes (CHLs; sum of trans-chlordane (trans-CHL), cis-chlordane (cis-CHL), trans-nonachlor (trans-NCL), cis-nonachlor (cis-NCL), and heptachlor epoxide (HepEpox)), and DDTs (sum of o,p′-DDE, p,p′-DDE, o,p′-DDD, p,p′-DDD, o,p′-DDT, and p,p′-DDT).
Average recoveries of surrogate standards (4,4′-dibromooctafluorobiphenyl, PCB 103 and PCB 198), which were spiked into the samples before extraction, were 75%, 76%, and 89%, respectively, in dissolved phase; and 68%, 84%, and 80%, respectively, in biota. The method-detection limits were 0.33 pg/L to 1.25 pg/L in dissolved water and 0.03 ng/g to 0.99 ng/g in biota on a dry-weight basis. As standard reference materials, we used AEA 142/OC (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria) for biota. The analytical values varied within ±35% of the true values. Mean relative standard deviations for standard reference material were 5.9%. No target compounds were detected in procedural blanks which were run together with every 8 samples.

2.4. Bioaccumulation Factor (BAF) and Trophic Transfer Factor (TTF)

The trophic-level (TL) position for individual organisms can be determined using stable isotopes of nitrogen (i.e., increase in 15N from the diet to the consumer, δ15N) [13]. However, measurements of such stable isotopes was not available in this study and then trophic position of each biota group was arbitrarily assigned based on their nominal eating habits: Zooplankton as a primary consumer, oyster (in pelagic) and crab (in benthic) as a secondary consumer, and goby (in pelagic) as a top predator/consumer. Oyster and crab investigated in this study are known to ingest suspended organic materials such as zooplankton and detritus in water column and sessile organic materials (mainly microalgae, bacteria and detritus) on the surface of stones, respectively, as a food source [14]. On the other hand, goby as a carnivorous predator ingest zooplankton, lugworm, and small benthos.
Bioaccumulation phenomenon reflects the uptake of chemical via both respiration (i.e., passive diffusion between dissolved phase of water and cell of biota) and food intake (i.e., active advection) [6, 9]. BAF (dimensionless or L/kg) is calculated as below.
(1)
BAF=CorganismCDW
where, Corganism and CDW indicate lipid-normalized concentration of chemical in tissue of organism (unit; ng/kg-lw) and chemical concentration in dissolved phase of water (ng/L), respectively.
TTF can be used to determine biomagnification extent, which indicates the enrichment of chemical accumulated in higher trophic level relative to lower trophic level. So, TTF is calculated as below:
(2)
TTF=CHL_organismCLL_organism
where, CHL_organism and CLL_organism indicate lipid-normalized concentration of chemical in relatively higher and lower level organisms (unit; ng/kg-lw), respectively. In the present study, body residue of zooplankton was assigned to CLL_organism. Thus, TTF values calculated in this study indicate the biomagnification factors of OCPs at each trophic level (oyster, crab, or goby) against zooplankton.

3. Results and Discussions

3.1. Concentration and Spatial Distribution of OCPs

Water (sites W1 to W4) and oyster (site B1 to B9) were collected from inner part to outer part of the harbor to investigate the spatial distribution in OCP contamination. W1 is the site for the freshwater (i.e., wastewater) discharged from nearby industrial factories and W2 to W4 are the sites for seawater. Overall, all of OCPs showed the highest concentration in site-W1, indicating that GWSR plays a role of significant input source (Fig. 2(a)). Among three seawater samples, two inner sites showed clearly higher levels than outer site for HCBz (0.27 ng/L at W2 and 0.56 ng/L at W3 versus 0.06 ng/L at W4) and CHLs (0.18 ng/L at W2 and 0.82 ng/L at W3 versus 0.06 ng/L at W4), while HCHs and DDTs exhibited relatively uniform distribution along the three sites (2.48 ng/L at W2, 3.75 ng/L at W3, and 2.40 ng/L at W4 for HCHs and 0.07 ng/L at W2, 0.10 ng/L at W3, and 0.16 ng/L at W4 for DDTs).
Except for HCBz, spatial distribution pattern of OCPs body residue measured in oyster was similar with that in seawater (Fig. 2(b)). That is, lipid normalized concentration of CHLs (sum of CHL isomers) declined gradually from inner (190.4 ± 60.6 ng/g at B1–B3) to outer part (113.0 ± 61.8 ng/g at B4–B9) of the harbor and to reference sites outside the harbor (34.3 ± 8.55 ng/g at B10–B12). On the other hand, such a gradually decreasing trend was less clear for DDTs (479.5 ± 75.7 ng/g vs. 456.8 ± 217.5 ng/g vs. 262.7 ± 126.6 ng/g, respectively) or reversal for HCHs (13.4 ± 5.5 ng/g vs. 22.3 ± 6.9 ng/g vs. 35.1 ± 5.7 ng/g, respectively). It may be because HCBz in most of oysters other than B8 and B10 were detected near the detection limit a that the spatial distribution of HCBz was not clear. Because of its water soluble and volatile properties compared with other OCPs, seawater current and/or atmospheric deposition might be more important contributor to its transport and distribution of HCHs. For example, substantial amounts of HCHs can be transported from Chinese rivers [1517] or atmospheric deposition [18] into the Yellow sea and then current might move HCHs to the Korean peninsula. The greater HCHs level was observed in the Yellow Sea offshore than the East Sea offshore [19] and relatively uniform levels were found along the Korean coastal sediment or sedentary bivalves which was contrast to distributions of other OCPs [20, 21]. Differently from HCHs, CHLs and DDTs had shown the most polluted pattern around the harbor and population/industry-dense bays [2123]. Relatively uniform distribution of DDTs in oyster might be due to ubiquitous sources including input from surrounding tributaries [10]. In short, OCPs in the study area seems to be influenced by different sources: for example, strong input from GWSR for CHLs, several input sources for DDTs, and transport from outside of the harbor for HCHs.
A previous study reported the spatial distribution of OCPs in both subtidal and tidal surface sediment which had been collected in the same sampling time [10]. In the present study, we compared OCPs levels in oyster of this study with and those in tidal surface sediment of a previous study [10] since oyster has habitat in tidal zone. There were significant correlations in spatial distribution of CHLs, DDTs, and HCHs between surface sediment and oyster when their concentrations were normalized by organic carbon for sediment and lipid content for oyster (Fig. 2(c)). Both sediment and sedentary organisms (i.e., bivalve) has been used for mussel watch program since 1975 to define the spatial and temporal trends of environmental pollutants because both matrices tends to accumulate certain contaminants and thus to reflect their recent contamination status [24, 25]. Most studies for mussel watch program has based on nationwide monitoring [2123] but there are very few studies to compare two monitoring matrices (i.e., sediment versus bivalve) within such a narrow harbor with this study. The finding of this study indicates that two monitoring matrices can be used complementarily for monitoring contamination, even at a narrow space scale.

3.2. Trophic Transfer and Bioaccumulation of OCPs

It is noticeable that although CHLs showed a gradual decreasing trend from inner to outer part of the harbor, the difference of average concentrations between inner (B1–B3) and outer sites (B4–B9) of the harbor were within two times as for all OCP groups. Furthermore, the composition patterns of isomers were very similar among the sites in the harbor (Fig. 3). This might be caused by strong tidal circulation in this area and so we can conclude that OCPs distributed homogeneously in space in the harbor.
Fig. 4 shows a brief picture of different trophic transfer and bioaccumulation extent of OCP groups in that dominant OCP changed along the trophic positions. HCHs was a predominant component in seawater (approximately 80% of total OCPs) followed by CHLs, HCBZ, and DDTs. In zooplankton as a primary consumer, DDTs was the most prevalent but HCHs still accounted for 17% of total OCPs. However, relative composition of OCPs dramatically changed along different trophic positions, which showed an increasing trend for CHLs but decreasing trend for DDTs on higher trophic position. HCHs was a minor component of OCPs in organisms of higher trophic positions from secondary consumers (i.e., oyster) to top predator (i.e., goby), indicating non- or less bioaccumulativity of HCHs.
Further qualification of bioaccumulation, we compared OCP body residues in organisms of different trophic levels in Table 1 and Fig. 5 to 6. Compared with a female crab (pooled sample of n = 30), a male crab (pooled sample of n = 20) contained somewhat higher concentrations for HCBz, HCHs, and CHLs but similar level for DDTs. Of different two sized gobies, HCBz and CHLs were a little higher in smaller goby (pooled sample of n = 7) but HCHs and DDTs were higher in larger goby (pooled sample of n = 9) reversely. Difference of OCP levels were within two times between male and female of crab and between two size classes of goby. Barni et al. [26] observed no clear difference in POPs body residue between male and female of shallow lake fish species. Sex differences were found just for inorganic compounds such as arsenic and cadmium with higher in female crabs than in male crabs [27], as a possible cause of which the authors suggested the dilution by the faster growth of male crab. No influence of sex was observed in the body residue of flame retardant both Lake Trout and Walleye, while a reversal result about size effect existed for different fish species (a positive linear relationship for Lake Trout versus negative linear relationship for Walleye) [28]. Accumulation of pollutant occurs when total intake overpass total output through growth dilution, metabolism, fecal egestion, and egg egestion (for female only). As for less- or non-metabolized pollutants such as POPs, a slow growth can cause an increasing body residue with age in male and a regular reproduction can alleviate a body residue in female [29]. In real environment, the effect of sex and size on bioaccumulation of pollutants can be more complicated because of temporal and spatial variation in physiological condition, food chain, and exposure concentration, and/or their co-variation. Gweurtz et al. [30] detected the significant differences between fish sexes in less than 25% of the tests conducted for mercury/total-PCBs. A pooled sample for each size and each sex in our study did not allow further statistical analysis. However, observed narrow difference and inconsistent trend with different OCP compounds was consistent with the results of other field studies mentioned above. Thus, sex or size effect was ignored in trophic transfer calculation since their effects could not be defined clearly.
In all calculation for BAF and TTF, the mean concentrations of seawater (W2 to W4), zooplankton (W2 and W4), oyster (B1 to B9), crab (male and female), and goby (muscle tissues of different two sized fishes) were used assuming that homogeneity in concentration distribution was established in the whole harbor area as discussed earlier.
Three OCP groups (i.e., HCBz, CHLs, and DDTs) exhibited a dramatic accumulation along the trophic level from zooplankton to goby (Table 1 and Fig. 5). Similar bioaccumulation was observed for most of individual isomers of CHLs and DDTs. However, such a trend was unclear for HCHs. Particularly, HCHs did not show any accumulation trend through trophic level and the relatively low level of alpha-HCH were found in the higher trophic level. Bioaccumulation extent is controlled by both hydrophobic (or lipophilic) potentials, which is represented by organism-water partition coefficient (i.e., BAF or KOW as a surrogate of BAF), and metabolism in body [6, 9]. Normally, OCPs are known to be persistent and thus difficult to be metabolized. So, hydrophobic potential could be a major factor to control their bioaccumulation. The target OCPs show a wide range of KOW value from 103.72 (for HCHs) to 106.91 (p,p′-DDT). HCHs have the lowest KOW values among target OCPs in this study (log KOW of 3.72 to 4.14). Therefore, we can infer that the bioaccumulation or trophic transfer of HCHs is less significant than other OCPs with greater KOW values.
The dependency of BAF and TTF on KOW was further investigated in Fig. 6. Overall, a good linear correlation was established between measured log BAF and log KOW. This means that KOW values can be a good surrogate for bioaccumulation extent of OCPs within at least a range of log KOW of 3.72–6.91. However, it is noticeable that most of BAF values from the goby, nominally the highest trophic level, positioned over the 1:1 line of log BAF and log KOW while those from the lower trophic levels (particularly, zooplankton and oyster) were in lower zone below the 1:1 line (Fig. 6(a)). This indicates that the greater fugacities could be established in the higher trophic level. Therefore, biomagnification via food intake might occur in higher trophic levels.
TTF values, representing enrichment relative to zooplankton along food-chain, were similar among two secondary consumers (oyster and crab) and even some OCPs with log KOW below 5 did not show any enrichment (Fig. 6(b)). As for goby which is arbitrarily assigned to the highest trophic position (i.e., top predator), log TTF values of most hydrophobic OCPs (> 5 of log KOW) ranged from 0.5 to 1.5 of log unit; that is, these OCPs were magnified by over 3 to 30 times relative to zooplankton. When CLL_organism in Eq. (2) is assigned to oyster or crab, TTF values indicate the biomagnification factors (BMFs) of OCPs from oyster or crab to goby. The TTF values ranged from 1.04 (DDTs) to 90 (HCBz) for oyster-to-goby and from 0.68 (HCHs) to 2.9 (CHLs) for crab-to-goby.
In this study, it was not possible to clarify the prey-predator relationship because stable isotope ratio or gut content were not analyzed and thus it is limited in explaining the biomagnification extent of target OCPs from prey to predator. Nevertheless, the plot of BAF and TTF values observed in this study against KOW confirmed the occurrence of biomagnification with increasing trophic level, although the nominal trophic positions based on their main food source were used. So, nominal trophic levels assigned in this study seem reasonable though it is not perfect for prey-predator relationship. TTF values based on nominal trophic level are not exactly the same as BMFs which is based on the accurate prey-predator relationship. However, TTF values can be used as an alternative metric for BMFs, in cases that ecosystem-specific prey-predator relationships were not known.
Laboratory-based test results have been conventionally used in establishing water quality criteria since it is not possible to test biomagnifcation extent through food-web in the laboratory condition. Such a laboratory-based bioaccumulation can represent BCF which reflect the intake via respiration only. When based on TTF measured in this study, more hydrophobic OCPs with log KOW > 5 were enriched by several to several ten times in the highest trophic level relative to the lowest trophic level. This means that water quality criteria originated from BCF (assuming that BCF is calculated from zooplankton and water) cannot protect the predators (goby in this study) in the higher trophic position. Thus, biomagnification factor (TTF in this study), which can be improved by accurate assessment of prey-predator relationship using stable isotope analysis, should be considered in the establishment of water quality criteria.
Another one to be discussed is that the slopes of log TTF (or log BAF) against log KOW were not significantly different among trophic levels. This means that more hydrophobic chemicals did not more magnify at least for OCPs with the range of maximum 7 of log KOW. This finding supports that it might take longer times for more hydrophobic chemicals to reach equilibrium or to overpass the equilibrium because the penetration across cell of more hydrophobic chemicals with bigger molecular size can be limited. Thus, biomagnification extent as a function of KOW could appear less obvious for more hydrophobic pollutants in a real environment if life span of organism is not long enough to overcome the hindrance of cell penetration.

4. Conclusions

The present study was designed to characterize the bioaccumulation of OCPs in marine organisms (zooplankton, oyster, crab, and goby) on different trophic level. In the present study, sedentary bivalve (oyster) showed strong correlations in OCPs levels with surface sediment in study area. This indicates the two compartments can be used complementarily for pollution monitoring of OCPs even in narrow scale in space. Four OCP groups showed dramatic change in relative composition profile along the trophic positions; for instance, relative enrichment of CHLs were the greatest with increasing trophic position while HCHs did not any bioaccumulative feature. Although nominal trophic position was arbitrarily applied, most of BAF values from higher trophic level positioned over the 1:1 line of log BAF and log KOW while those from lower trophic levels were in lower zone below the 1:1 line, indicating the greater fugacity in the higher trophic level and thus the occurrence of biomagnification via ingestion. TTF values investigated in this study showed that more hydrophobic OCPs with log KOW > 5 were enriched by several to several ten times in top predator (goby) of the study area.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Incheon National University Research Grant in 2014.

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Fig. 1
Study area and sampling sites (oyster, B1–B12; water, W1–W4; crab and goby from dotted area around W2&W3). Sampling sites are assigned to inner (W1–W3 and B1–B3) and outer parts (W4 and B4–B9) of the harbor and outside of the harbor as reference sites (B10–B12).
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Fig. 2
Spatial distribution of OCPs in water (a) and oyster (b), and the relationship of OCPs levels between oyster and sediment (c) from study area. Sites at left-side of solid vertical lines in each panel (i.e., W1–W3 and B1–B3) indicate inner sites of the harbor, sites between solid and dotted lines (i.e., W4 and B4–B9) indicate outer sites of the harbor, and sites at the right-side of dotted line (i.e., B10–12) indicate reference sites. OCPs in sediment was cited from Kim et al. [10].
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Fig. 3
Homogeneity of spatial distribution of OCP isomers.
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Fig. 4
Change of relative composition of OCPs in different trophic levels.
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Fig. 5
Comparison of bioaccumulation extent among OCP groups (a) or isomers (b), (c), and (d).
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Fig. 6
Bioaccumulation factor (BAF) (a) and trophic transfer factor (TTF) (b) as a function of octanol-water partition coefficient (log KOW). All TTF values were calculated against zooplankton.
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Table 1
Concentrations of OCPs in Seawater and Marine Organisms Used to Calculate BAF and TTF
Seawater (ng/L) Zooplankton (ng/g lw) Oyster (ng/g lw) Crab (ng/g lw) Goby (ng/g lw)
HCBz 0.29 ± 0.25 21.62 ± 3.80 1.64 ± 3.80 99.17 ± 35.73 148.24 ± 20.04
HCHs 2.88 ± 0.75 48.87 ± 13.26 19.29 ± 13.91 44.88 ± 26.49 30.57 ± 10.19
 alpha-HCH 0.54 ± 0.14 12.10 ± 4.14 10.03 ± 2.77 2.75 ± 3.89 < MDL
 beta-HCH 1.02 ± 0.12 23.36 ± 5.87 0.74 ± 2.21 41.28 ± 23.82 18.52 ± 5.89
 gamma-HCH 1.19 ± 0.82 9.23 ± 1.87 8.22 ± 8.01 < MDL 12.06 ± 4.30
 delta-HCH 0.13 ± 0.12 4.19 ± 1.39 0.31 ± 0.92 0.86 ± 1.21 < MDL
CHLs 0.35 ± 0.41 37.94 ± 13.79 131.77 ± 62.24 178.78 ± 79.49 518.76 ± 124.72
 trans-CHL 0.11 ± 0.11 11.65 ± 3.76 41.56 ± 25.40 16.08 ± 5.13 56.83 ± 22.13
 cis-CHL 0.16 ± 0.17 11.83 ± 4.49 40.52 ± 20.07 12.54 ± 0.84 137.55 ± 45.31
 trans-NCL 0.08 ± 0.13 9.00 ± 3.66 31.34 ± 12.81 109.43 ± 66.00 230.71 ± 38.20
 cis-NCL < MDL 5.45 ± 1.88 18.36 ± 5.72 40.73 ± 19.45 93.67 ± 19.08
DDTs 0.11 ± 0.05 184.75 ± 73.40 464.36 ± 141.91 460.38 ± 3.14 482.68 ± 32.08
 o,p′-DDE < MDL < MDL < MDL < MDL < MDL
 p,p′-DDE 0.06 ± 0.05 71.35 ± 30.49 187.11 ± 57.00 279.44 ± 31.37 335.98 ± 31.47
 o,p′-DDD < MDL 22.09 ± 6.21 37.16 ± 10.94 15.94 ± 2.97 0.00 ± 0.00
 p,p′-DDD 0.02 ± 0.03 48.20 ± 15.98 99.45 ± 32.57 43.08 ± 6.59 45.08 ± 0.40
 o,p′-DDT 0.03 ± 0.04 < MDL 31.17 ± 15.12 69.14 ± 7.61 < MDL
 p,p′-DDT < MDL 43.11 ± 20.71 109.47 ± 63.37 52.78 ± 11.06 101.62 ± 0.22

HCH is the sum of concentrations of four HCH isomers

CHLs is the sum of concentrations of four CHL isomers

DDTs is the sum of concentrations of six DDT isomers

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