Abstract
Princess Royal Harbour is a semi-enclosed marine embayment which received mercury-contaminated industrial effluent from a superphosphate plant over a 30-year period. Although the levels of mercury in the sediments were not particularly high (≤ 1·7mg kg −1), most fish taken from the harbour contained very high levels of mercury (up to 10·3 mg kg −1). The organic mercury content of biota within the harbour was related to the trophic level of the organism. The wide range in mercury levels in fish of different species was largely explained by their diets and suggested that direct uptake from water was not a significant source of mercury for these fish.
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