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Table 27: Concentration of PCA in different fish species worldwide. For details, see references. 
Sample type 
Location 
Country 
n a 
Gender b 
Tissue 
PCA measured 
Concentration 
[ng/pl] 
Analytical 
method 
Ref. 
White fish 
Lake Storvindeln 
Sweden 
35 
m+f 
Muscle 
Cio-i3 60 % 
1000 (lw) 
ECNI-LRMS 
1 
Herring 
North Sea 
- 
1 
ns 
Muscle 
Cio-i3 
250 (lw) 
" 
2 
Herring 
Bothnian Sea 
Sweden 
100 
m+f 
" 
Cio-i3 60 % 
1400 (lw) 
" 
1 
" 
Baltic Proper 
" 
60 
m+f 
" 
" 
1500 (lw) 
" 
1 
" 
Skagerrak 
" 
100 
m+f 
" 
" 
1600 (lw) 
" 
1 
Carp 
Hamilton Harbour 
Canada 
3 
ns 
Whole 
Ci4_i7 52 % 
2630 (ww) 
ECNI-HRMS 
3 
Yellow perch 
Detroit River 
USA 
1 
ns 
Muscle 
Cio_i3 60-70 % 
1150 (ww) 
" 
4 
Catfish 
" 
" 
1 
ns 
" 
" 
305 (ww) 
" 
4 
Trout 
Remote locations 
Norway 
1(13) 
ns 
Muscle 
Cio-i3 
110-1700 (lw) 
" 
5 
Arctic char 
Ellasjpen, Bear I. 
Norway 
1 
ns 
" 
" 
592 (lw) 
ECNI-HRMS 
5 
Arctic char 
Velmunden 
Norway 
1 
ns 
" 
" 
500 (lw) 
" 
5 
Arctic char 
Lake Vättern 
Sweden 
15 
m+f 
" 
Cio-i3 60 % 
570 (lw) 
ECNI-LRMS 
1 
Burbot 
Remote locations 
Norway 
1(6) 
ns 
Liver 
Cio-i3 
230-3700 (ww) 
ECNI-HRMS 
5 
Blue fish 
Marmara Sea 
Turkey 
1 
ns 
Whole 
" 
725 (lw) 
ECNI-LRMS 
2 
Cod 
Atlantic 
- 
1 
ns 
" 
" 
727 (lw) 
" 
2 
Angler 
Atlantic 
- 
1 
ns 
" 
" 
311 (lw) 
" 
2 
Carp 
East Anglia 
UK 
ns 
ns 
Muscle 
s+mPCA 
500 (ww) 
" 
6 
a : Pooled individuals or number of individuals (in brackets); b : M: male, f: female, ns: not specified; c : lw: lipid weight, ww: wet weight. 
1: Jansson et al. (1993), 2: Coelhan (1999); 3: Muir et al. (1998); 4: Tomy et al. (1997); %: Borgen et al. (2001); 6: Nicolls et al. (2001).