All these metals have different effect on fish . Heavy metals Several different type of metals are swept to the rivers every day. This includes copper, lead and cadmium. Some organisms can excrete or even transform to toxic elements and store them in their liver, digestive glands or kidney. This table shows that several fish where contaminated by heavy metals the concentration are overcoming legal limit for consumption.
Heavy metals have different effects on fish.
Fish contaminated by cadmium were shown to have a certain impact on the fish growth rate. Manganese Manganese comes from different products, paints, textiles, fertilizers and several others. Cu is therefore suppressing the antibody response. Aluminum The aluminum toxicity is one of the most dangerous ones since a low pH since it dissolves in the water. Other heavy metals Other metals such as Mercury, lead, magnesium and zinc have an important effect on the antibodies production.