Assessment of some heavy metal accumulation and potential health risk for three fish species from three consecutive bay in North-Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Due to rapid urbanization and industrialization especially near water resources, heavy metal pollution in both inland environments have been studied all around the world. In this study, some selected metals (Al, Sr, Cd, Co, Ni and, Pb) fish species (Mullus barbatus, Solea solea, Siganus rivulatus) from three Bays (İskenderun, Mersin, Antalya North-Eastern Mediterranean Sea) were used for accumulation level evaluation health risk assessment on general populations. A variety of patterns considered observed tissues. Significant (p<0.05) inter- intraspecies/tissues/bays differences detected. The most stable tissue terms Al Sr was determined as muscle. For Co found liver. Lastly, skin be moststable tissue. Target Hazard Quotients (THQ) Total (TTHQ) values based muscle not exceeded 1.00. Therefore, these results suggest that populations are subjected significant potential those bays.