Petroleum is a complex mixture of several compounds. Among its principal components there are hydrocarbons which account to up to 98% of the total composition. Among the hydrocarbons, there are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), which are more resistant to biodegradation, quite persistent in the environment and potentially carcinogenic to humans and marine organisms. The presence of these compounds on ecosystems, from natural origin or from anthropogenic sources, and their efluorescênciaects, can be monitored using living organisms of the environment. In aquatic ecosystems, the determination of PAH metabolites, in fish bile from the environment can be used as an indicator of recent environmental exposure. Thus, the development and validation of methods usually employed in the determination of PAH metabolites in the bile of fish have assistance in the preparation and implementation of diagnoses on the environmental contamination by petroleum and derivatives in aquatic systems. In this work two methods for the determination of 1- hydroxypyrene in fish bile were improved, validated and compared. A method using the high liquid chromatography with fluorescence detector (HPLC-F) and the other using fixed fluorescence spectroscopy. The methods were validated based on parameters linearity, sensitivity, limit of detection, limit of quantification, repeatability, reproducibility. In addition, calculations of the uncertainties associated to the 1-hydroxypyrene measurement were made. In both cases, the sources of most significant contribution to the methods uncertainty were the standard solutions. The combined standard uncertainty associated with the method using the liquid chromatography was lower than that associated with the method using molecular fluorescence. The fluorimetric method can be used as a semi-quantitative tool and presented greater uncertainty. However, this method has lower analysis time and costs of operation and maintenance, being quite suitable for preliminary analysis.