Bazyli Czeczuga1, Bernard
KŁYSZEJKO2 and Ewa Czeczuga-Semeniuk1
1Medical University,
Kilińskiego 1, 15-230 Białystok, Poland
2Academy of Agriculture,
K. Królewicza 4, 71-550 Szczecin, Poland
Key words: New Zealand, fishes, carotenoids.
Abstract.
Using column and thin-layer chromatography, carotenoid
content was examined in the fillets (muscles with skin), liver and gonads
(in a few species) of twenty-two species of fish from the fisheries of
New Zealand. Twenty-six carotenoids were found, with a predominance of
canthaxanthin and astaxanthin. The total carotenoid content in the
examined material ranged from 0.281 (carcases of Zeus faber) to
6.384 mg * g-1 wet mass (liver of
Scomber japonicus).