| Fish/Seafood Concentrations | Endeavour prawns from Exmouth Gulf, Shark Bay, and Groote Elylandt, Australia, contained 2-bromophenol at concentrations of 9.6 to 53, 2.7, and 1.0 ug/kg, respectively(1). Ten different species of fish, collected in August 1992 from the eastern coast of Australia, contained 2-bromophenol at concentrations of <0.05 to 0.1 ng/g for the carcass and <0.05 to 5.2 ng/g for the whole gut (analysis of single fish from each species)(2). Ocean fish were separated by species into pelagic carnivores, benthic carnivores, diverse omnivores and restricted omnivoresconcentrations in the flesh ranged from <0.01 to 0.1 ng/g, <0.01 to 5.2 ng/g, <0.01 to 0.4, and <0.01 to 0.1 ng/g, respectively, while concentrations in the gut ranged from <0.01 to 0.2 ng/g, <0.01 to 27 ng/g, <0.01 to 1.2 ng/g, and <0.01 to 0.7 ng/g, respectively(3). Thirty samples of 9 species of prawns, collected from the eastern coast of Australia from 1993 to 1996, contained 2-bromophenol at concentrations of <0.01 to 42 ng/g(4). 2-Bromophenol concentrations in cultivated prawns ranged from <0.01 to 0.02 ng/g in the head and <0.01 to 0.01 ng/g in the tail(4). 2-Bromophenol was detected in marine fish, mollusks, and crustaceans obtained from a seafood shop in Hong Kong. Seasonal concentrations in the flesh of rabbitfish (Siganus canaliculatus) and brown-spotted grouper (Epinepheus areolatus) ranged from 0 to 10.7 ng/g and 0 to 4.18 ng/g, respectivelyin the gut, concentrations ranged from 0 to 30.8 ng/g and 0 to 17.5 ng/g, respectively. In the mullusks, including clams (Tapes philippinarum) and oysters (Ostrea rivularis), seasonal concentrations ranged from 0.170 to 17.2 ng/g and 1.85 to 6.10 ng/g, respectively. For crustaceans, seasonal concentrations in the cephalothorax and tail of the shrimp (Penaeus japonicus) ranged from 1.27 to 7.72 ng/g and 0.421 to 5.87 ng/g, respectivelyin crab (Charybdis feriatus), concentrations ranged from 0.991 to 34.4 ng/g(5). |
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