There has been a widespread world-wide use of flathead mullet, Mugilcephalus, in fish biomonitor studies within the coastal zone. This review summarises this research field, focusing on heavy metals, and considers the implications of the accumulated data. Differences in sampling methodology, tissues analysed and units of reported data provide challenges in assessing and benchmarking these biomo...

Apostenus ducati sp. nov. is described from montane areas in or adjacent to the Columbia River basin of southeastern British Columbia in Canada and northern Washington and northwestern Montana in the United States. This is the second Nearctic species of this primarily Palaearctic genus. Unlike most liocranids, A. ducati apparently is restricted to open rocky habitats, such as talus and scree sl...

ontana’s Flathead Valley, a vast area in the northwestern part of the state, is the size of Connecticut, but is home to fewer than 94,000 residents. It is not unusual for people to live 30 or more miles from the closest hospital in Kalispell, the commercial center of the county. And with public transportation unavailable beyond the city limits, some of the region’s most medically complex reside...

Increasingly there is a need to assess the contaminant levels in fish as indicators of the health and well-being of both the fish and their consumers, including humans. This paper examines the levels of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, manganese, mercury, and selenium in the kidney, liver, and muscle of great sculpin and flathead sole from Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Both spec...

A part of the Raša Bay (western Croatia) is an estuary that fed by sediment load from River. The local area had been affected former coal industry. aim this study was to determine levels hazardous trace elements (HTEs) in bottom estuarine sediments, fish and mussels collected two sites downstream River mouth, a wild boar’s kidney donated hunters. pseudo-total concentrations 21 HTEs sediments we...