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Table 2 Classification of the content of EPA plus DHA by methylmercury content in 88 fish species

From: Methylmercury and long-chain n-3 fatty acids of 88 fish species commonly consumed in Hong Kong

Methylmercury

MEPA + DHA

 

x ≤ 3 mg/g

3 < x ≤ 8 mg/g

8 < x ≤ 15 mg/g

x > 15 mg/g

x ≤ 0.1 μg/g

Other fish species included in the study

Yellowfin seabream, white horsehead, snakehead, areolate grouper, giant grouper, Reeve's moray, largemouth bass, golden threadfin bream, swallow tail pomfret, slender lizardfish, greater lizardfish, spotted scat, rabbitfish, largehead hairtail

Japanese eel, fourfinger threadfin, yellow croaker, red pargo, silver pomfret, false halibut, white trevally, purple amberjack, yellowtail kingfish

Atlantic salmon, skewband grunt

0.1 < x ≤ 0.5 μg/g

Black porgy, skipjack tuna, star snapper, dash-and-dot goatfish, Indian goatfish, chub mackerel, Japanese sillago, yellowtail barracuda

Golden tail, yellowtail kingfish

Laced moray

 

x > 0.5 μg/g

 

Alfonsino