International Science Community Association Research Journal of Recent Sciences 2277 - 2502 1 1 2012 January 2 Distribution of Selected Trace Metal in Fish Parts from the River Nigeria 81 84 EN Gwal A.K. 1 Space Science Laboratory, Department of Physics Barkatullah University Bhopal-462026, INDIA Jain SantoshKumar 2 Panda Gopal 3 Gujar Y.S. 4 Raghuwanshi S. 5 S.K. Vijay 6 Bora Abhijit 1 Tezpur University, Napaam, Sonitpur district, Assam, INDIA Parikh AnkitaN. 1 Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Varodara.390 002, Gujarat, INDIA Mankodi P.C. 2 SenthilKumar A.P. 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, INDIA Karthikeyan P. 2 Department of Automobile Engineering PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, INDIA V. PrabhuRaja 3 M. Ramu 4 Somasundharam S. 5 Vasudevan V. 6 Selvakumar B. 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, INDIA V. PrabhuRaja 2 Department of Automobile Engineering PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, INDIA R. NandhaKumar 3 SenthilKumar A.P. 4 M.S. Vignesh 5 G.R. VivekSharma 6 Karthikeyan P. 7 Kumar Pradeep 1 Department of Physics, K G K (P G) College, Moradabad 244 001, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA Singh Bhupendra 2 Department of Physics, Hindu College, Moradabad 244 001, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA Kumar Anil 3 Ezenwa I.A. 1 Department of Industrial Physics, Anambra State University Uli, NIGERIA Patil M.M. 1 Dept. of Processing and food Eng., College of Technology and Eng. Maharana Pratap Uni. of Agriculture and Tech. Udaipur, INDIA Kalse S.B. 2 Jain S.K. 3 Pathak Sunil 1 Swami Vivekanand College of Engineering Indore, MP, INDIA Hashemi SeyedAhmadReza 1 South of Iran aquaculture fishery research center, Ahwaz, IRAN Gholamreza Eskandary 2 Hoshang Ansary 3 Dave V.P. 1 Dept. of Experimental Medicine and Biotechnology, P. G. Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, INDIA Kaul D. 2 Dept. of Cardiology, P. G. Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, INDIA Sharma Y.P. 3 Hemmati Farshid 1 Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, IRAN Mojtaba Zangeneh 1 Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, IRAN Nwajei G.E. 1 Department of Chemistry, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, NIGERIA Obi-Iyeke G.E. 2 Department of Botany, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, NIGERIA Okwagi P. 3 Department of Chemistry, College of Education, Agbor. Delta state, NIGERIA > Short Communication 2011 9 04 2012 January 2 Three species of fish namely Chryschthys nigrodigitatus, Clarius anguillaris and Tilapia zilli obtained from the River Niger investigated to ascertain the extent of trace metal pollution. The fishes were cut into three parts namely, the gills, muscles and tails and were analysed for trace metals such as manganese, lead, cadmium, chromium, nickel and copper using the atomic absorption spectrophotometer of model pye unican SP 2900 Australia. The results obtained revealed that all the aforementioned trace metals were all detected and there were variations in the concentrations of metals in various fish parts analysed. There were evidence of bioaccumulation of metals in fishes indicating that they were highly polluted since the values exceeded the WHO set standard for fishes. A look at the mean results further indicated that the gills accumulate more metals than those of the muscles and tails. Also Tilapia zilli was observed to accumulate the highest trace metal levels than others in this study. Manganese had the highest concentrations when compared with other metals. The fishes studied can be used as indicators for environmental pollutions monitoring programme in Nigerian Rivers. Copyright@ International Science Community Association