2024 Ecosystem Transformation 7 (3), 97-118

Persistent organochlorine pollutants in cyprinids from the Lake Khanka (Spassky District, Primorsky Krai, Russia)

Donets M.M. , Kozhenkova S.I., Boyarova M.D., Gumovskaya Yu.P., Kulshova V.I., Borovkova A.D., Tsygankov V.Yu.

Present study provides data of organochlorine pesticides (DDT, HCH) and polychlorinated biphenyls (28, 52, 155, 101, 118, 143, 153, 138, 180, 207 congener) content in six carp fish from Lake Khanka. Organochlorine compounds are found in all studied samples. HCHs isomers were dominant, constituting on average 70% of all pesticides detected. α-HCH content varied from 8 to 95%. Among DDTs, o,p’- and p,p’-DDE were predominant (on average 10–100 and 15–100%, respectively). PCBs content in all fish samples was primarily presented by low-chlorinated 28 and 52 congeners. Detected isomers evidence on the long-term pollution of Lake Khanka by persistent organic pollutants. Compare to southern China and Croatia, fish from Lake Khanka showed significantly higher levels of accumulation of HCH and lower levels of DDT and PCB. When comparing the data with the requirements of regulatory documents in Russia and China, no cases of exceeding maximum permissible concentrations were identified.

M. M. Donets
Far Eastern Federal University
Ajax 10, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, 690922 Russia

Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
ul. Radio 7, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, 690041 Russia

maksim.donecz@mail.ru

S. I. Kozhenkova
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
ul. Radio 7, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, 690041 Russia

State Natural Biosphere Reserve “Khankaisky”
ul. Ershova 10, Spassk-Dalniy, Primorsky Krai, 692245 Russia


M. D. Boyarova
Far Eastern Federal University
Ajax 10, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, 690922 Russia


Yu. P. Gumovskaya
Far Eastern Federal University
Ajax 10, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, 690922 Russia


V. I. Kulshova
Far Eastern Federal University
Ajax 10, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, 690922 Russia


A. D. Borovkova
Far Eastern Federal University, Ajax 10, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, 690922 Russia 2 Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Radio 7, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, 690041 Russia
Ajax 10, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, 690922 Russia

Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
ul. Radio 7, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, 690041 Russia


V. Yu. Tsygankov
Institute of the World Ocean, Far Eastern Federal University
10 Ajax Bay, Russky Island, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, 690922 Russia

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