Age, growth, sex-ratio, spawning season and food of golden banded goatfish, Upeneus moluccensis Bleeker (1855) from the Mediterranean and south Aegean Sea coasts of Turkey

Metals (Hg, Pb, Cu, and Zn) Bioaccumulation in Sediment, Fish, and Human Scalp Hair: A Case Study from the City of Mersin Along the Southern Coast of Turkey

“…Determination of their toxicity is therefore of fundamental importance for human health. Fish, extensively used in marine pollution monitoring programs, are important in human diet, and therefore, have been subjected to numerous studies [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Complementary studies have been carried out on metal levels at sediment and human scalp hair (hereafter referred to as HSH) in critically polluted coastal regions throughout the world [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] and Turkey [21][22][23][24].…”

Diversity of juvenile fish assemblages in the pelagic waters of Lebanon (eastern Mediterranean)

“…Golani & Ben-Tuvia, 1985;Golani & Diamant, 1991;Golani, 1993;Kaya et al, 1999;Bariche et al, 2003Bariche et al, , 2004 while pelagic fish assemblages remain largely understudied (Ben-Tuvia, 1957, 1983. Assessing species composition in the pelagic environment is of great importance for understanding the contribution of Lessepsian species to the diversity of pelagic fish assemblages in the eastern Mediterranean.…”

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“…In early 1970s, Ben-Tuvia (1973) notified that it was found from a trawling operation in the Bay of Bodrum (Turkey), SE Aegean Sea. Subsequently actual records have been documented from Fethiye and Gökova Bays (Turkey) during the 1991-1992 trawl surveys by Kaya et al (1999) and from the same bays during the 1991-1994 surveys by Torcu and Mater (2000); from Gökova Bay ( (Figure 1). The second specimen was 115 mm TL (Figure 2), captured at 38°53′ N and 26°52' E (Figure 1).…”

“…Moreover, Akyol et al (2011) did not mention it within Izmir fish fauna during the past four decades. Corsini-Foka and Economidis (2007) also erroneously reported occurring U. moluccensis from Kuşadası Bay, Turkey when referred to Kaya et al (1999). Whereas, no Kuşadası station for sampling was exist in trawl coordinates, even sampling stations were starting from Gökova Bay (see, Table 1 in Kaya et al, 1999).…”

“…Corsini-Foka and Economidis (2007) also erroneously reported occurring U. moluccensis from Kuşadası Bay, Turkey when referred to Kaya et al (1999). Whereas, no Kuşadası station for sampling was exist in trawl coordinates, even sampling stations were starting from Gökova Bay (see, Table 1 in Kaya et al, 1999). Galil (2007) stated that there were competition between U. moluccensis and native Mullus barbatus in the Levantine due to have a similar diet, and occupy muddy bottoms at depths to 75 m, and U. moluccensis is caught with significant amounts of the trawl catches, when M. barbatus declines concurrently.…”