“…Since its first application in the 1980s (Krahn et al, 1987), the analysis of PAH metabolites in fish bile, as a biomarker for PAH exposure, has become increasingly popular for use in field studies and environmental monitoring. PAH metabolites as biomarker has been determined in a variety of marine, estuarine and fresh water fish species, such as English sole (Collier and Varanasi, 1991), plaice (Richardson et al, 2004), flounder (Ariese et al, 1993;Beyer et al, 1996;Eggens et al, 1996;Kopecka et al, 2006;Vethaak et al, 2011), dab (Kammann, 2007;Vethaak et al, 2009), Atlantic cod (Beyer et al, 1996;Aas et al, 2000), Atlantic hagfish (Sundt et al, 2011), feral finfish (Hellou et al, 2006), eelpout (Tairova et al, 2012), brown bullhead (Yang and Baumann, 2006), trout (EscartĂn and Porte, 1999a), eel (Van der Oost et al, 1994;Ruddock et al, 2003;Gorbi and Regoli, 2004;Nagel et al, 2012;Kammann et al, 2014), and red mullet (Escartin and Porte, 1999b;MartĂnez-GĂłmez et al, 2013).…”