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