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Contaminants in Tissue of <strong>Fish</strong> and Crabs Collected in the <strong>Gladstone</strong> AreaTable 2.4. Regional means for the metal concentrations (dry-weight basis). Within trips, significant(P < 0.05) differences are bolded.Trip 1 – Trip 2 –Reference <strong>Gladstone</strong> Sig. level Reference <strong>Gladstone</strong> Sig. levelAluminium 30.3 6.1 0.000 14.5 16.0 0.767Iron 421 249 0.307 393 173 0.202Copper 6.04 3.92 0.220 4.62 3.11 0.387Zinc 67.2 62.7 0.600 62.1 55.9 0.482Arsenic 1.82 3.79 0.119 2.87 2.68 0.875Selenium 3.63 3.32 0.679 3.56 3.14 0.571Cadmium 0.094 0.078 0.625 0.051 0.021 0.351Mercury 0.381 0.252 0.125 0.393 0.366 0.751Barium 1.65 0.34 0.233 1.97 1.53 0.6863. RESULTS – BARRAMUNDI, LIVERDisease status – None of the metals in Table 3.1 showed a significant (P < 0.05) differencebetween normal and diseased fish. Silver and copper were close to significant, with diseased fishhaving lower levels of these metals than the normal fish.Table 3.1. Effects of disease status on the metal concentrations (dry-weight basis), for the livers ofbarramundi.Normal DiseasedAverages.e.Significancelevel (P)Ratio (Diseased/ Normal)Aluminium 2.26 3.18 0.53 0.489 1.41Iron 1420 1901 282 0.431 1.34Copper 44.8 18.5 10.2 0.065 0.41Zinc 67.9 66.0 7.7 0.701 0.97Arsenic 4.40 5.80 0.80 0.429 1.32Selenium 5.36 4.52 0.86 0.373 0.84Cadmium 0.106 0.137 0.019 0.562 1.28Mercury 0.597 0.624 0.145 0.843 1.05Silver 0.260 0.080 0.063 0.055 0.31Location by trip meansThese are the results that are of primary interest, and are listed in Tables 3.2a to 3.2i. Again,significant-difference testing has been conducted amongst the nine means for each metal.Table 3.2a. Aluminium.AwoongaDam BundabergFitzroyRiverHamiltonPointUpperBoyne R. Avg. s.e.Trip 1 0.57 c 3.92 ab 0.97 bc 2.96 abc 3.64 ab 0.99Trip 2 3.23 abc 1.25 bc 5.42 a 2.52 abca Means with a common superscript are not significantly different (P = 0.05).Page 45

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