Relationships Between Heavy Metals in Shrimp ( Macrobrachium felicinum ) and Metal Levels in The Water Column and Sediments of Taylor Creek

Heavy metals in the aquatic environment have todate originated fundamentallyfrom naturally occurring geochemical resources. Nonetheless, this has been enhanced by anthropogenic activities resulting in pollution. Consequently, relationships and partitioning of heavy metals in the dissolved phase, suspended particulate matter (SPM), sediments and shrimp ( Macrobrachium felicinum ) were investigated in five selected sites along Taylor creek, southern Nigeria. The degree of relationships between the various metals was dissimilar in each of the investigated matrices. In the matrices studied, not several significant relationships (P<0.05) were obtained. Only Ni-Cd (r=0.95), Mn-Cd (r=0.63), Mn-Ni (r=0.64) were associated in the sediments and in SPM, Zn-Ni (r=0.72), which suggests that the sources were not common for both matrices. In the dissolved phase, no strong relationships (P