| mercury content of commercially important fish of the seychelles, and hair mercury levels of a selected part of the population. | mercury and methyl mercury concentrations were determined in the muscle of 12 of the most important commercial fish species found in seychelles waters. the concentration of mercury in a few of the larger specimens of kingfish (acanthocybium solandri), becune (sphyraena forsteri), carangue balo (caranx gymnostethus), and bonito (euthynnus affinis) exceeded the provisional maximum permissible level of 1.0 mg/kg of total mercury established by the food and drug administration (1979) in the united s ... | 1983 | 6832117 |