Assessment of some Heavy Metals in Muscle Tissue of Silurus triostegus from Derbendikhan Reservoir, Kurdistan Region –Iraq

Derbendikhan reservoir is located on the south east of Sulaimani province between longitude 35 6' 35N and latitude, 45 41' 20" E, and it is the second largest reservoir in the Iraqi Kurdistan region at an altitude of about 485 m above sea level. More than twenty genera of fishes are endemic to this reservoir, Silurus triostegus is one of them, which was selected to determine the amount of heavy metals that accumulated in the muscle tissue. The results revealed that the metals were accumulated in the following descending order (Fe Keywords heavy metals --- Derbendikhan reservoir --- Silurus triostegus