Abstract
A variety of marine biota, including zooplankton, sargassum, surface plankton, squid, shrimp, and fish collected along the south Texas Outer Continental Shelf, were analyzed for Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb, Cr, Ni, Fe, and Mn. Although there is a great deal of variation in the chemical content of the various samples, both within species and between species, the variations all fall within the range of values published for similar organisms collected elsewhere.