Condition and Sperm Characteristics of Perch Perca fluviatilis inhabiting Boreal Lakes Receiving Metal Mining Effluents
| Autor: | Ari Väisänen, Juha Karjalainen, Jaana Wallin, Anna K. Karjalainen, Hanna E. Arola |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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kaivokset Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis jätevesi 010501 environmental sciences Toxicology 01 natural sciences Mining Article biologinen puhdistus 03 medical and health sciences Nickel Temperate climate Ecotoxicology Animals Humans 14. Life underwater Sperm motility Finland 030304 developmental biology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences vesistöt kaivosjätteet 0303 health sciences Perch kaivostoiminta biology General Medicine Contamination biology.organism_classification vesistövaikutukset Pollution Sperm Spermatozoa 6. Clean water Fishery Lakes Boreal Liver 13. Climate action Metals Perches Freshwater fish Sperm Motility Environmental science päästöt Water Pollutants Chemical Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology |
| ISSN: | 1432-0703 |
| Popis: | One of the world’s largest, but low-grade, sulfide nickel deposits in northeastern Finland has been exploited by a bioheapleaching technology since 2008. Bioheapleaching is a relatively new, cost-effective technology, but humid climate, e.g., in boreal temperate environments, causes challenges to the management of the water balance in the ore heaps with wide catchment area, and the mining effluents have caused substantial metal and salting contamination of the receiving waterbodies. In our study, the impacts of metal-extracting bioheapleaching mine effluents on muscle and liver element concentrations, body condition, liver and testes mass, and sperm count and motility of male perch Perca fluviatilis were analysed. Liver, testes, and carcass mass of perch in relation to their length were lower in the mining-impacted lakes than in the reference lake, which may be due to the metal contamination, food availability, and energy demand under multistressor conditions. The sperm counts of the males in the mining-impacted lakes were lower, but the endurance of their sperm motility was longer than the endurance of sperm of the reference males. These findings suggested that the condition and sperm characteristics of perch were altered in lakes receiving metal mining effluents. Measured variables seem to be useful indicators for metal mining impacts on freshwater fish but only if high natural variation in these characteristics can be controlled by multiyear monitoring scheme. |
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