Bluefin tuna reveals mercury pollution in the world’s oceans
Rutuja Borawke, Research fellow at CSIR-IGIB A recent study published in PNAS, states that an apex predatory, migratory fish named Bluefin tuna (BFT) is a species that has neurotoxic methylmercury (MeHg) in its tissues. Accumulation rates of mercury (Hg) increase with their age and can be used as a global pollution index that may contemplate […]