Heavy Metals: A Desolation for Fishes

The review highlights the influences of heavy metals on fishes. Through bioaccumulation, these heavy metals get stored in different organs of the fishes and gets biomagnified at the higher trophic levels and eventually reach humans. Fishes are usually contemplated as the bioindicators of heavy metal contamination. Heavy metal also ensues the instability of the ecosystem, resulting in the deprivation of the biodiversity at all the levels. Heavy metals perturb various behavioural and physiological changes in the fishes, eventually leading to their death. Heavy metals also pose enormous health effects on humans including cancer.