Fish Management And Aquatic Environment

Contents: Preface. I. Fish Management: 1. Transgenic fish: possibilities and threats/Partha Bandyopadhyay and Arvind Kumar. 2. Studies on fisheries of Tilapia-dominated perennial tank/A. Madhusudhan Rao and Ravi Shankar Piska. 3. Status of fisheries resources in selected backwaters of Kerala/P.K. Sukumaran and V.K. Unnithan. 4. Application of ITK in fish farm management/Apurba Bhuyan and A.K. Panigrahi. 5. Requirement of dietary vitamin E in relation to growth, feed conversion and deficiency symptoms for the fingerlings of Labeo rohita (Hamilton)/Ashok K. Gupta. 6. Role of sediments in relation to productivity and fishery potentiality of mangroves swamp of Akshi Creek/S.S. Yeragi and S.G. Yeragi. 7. Observation on opercular movement and heartbeat rate in freshwater Glossogobius giuris (Ham.) after exposed to Malathion/V. Sreenivasa, V. Aravindhan, M.B. Nadoni and P.S. Murthy. 8. Food and feeding habits of the Gobiid fish Pseudapocryptes lanceolatus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) of the Vasista Godavari Estuary, East Coast of India/K.V.C.S. Appa Rao and K. Sreeramulu. 9. Biochemical studies of insulin effect on freshwater fish, Oreochromis mossambicus: 1. On liver tissue/M.R. Delphine Rose, W. Premasugantha, A. Jeyaseeli, S. Anitakannagi and M. Narayanan. 10. Toxicological studies of Nuvan in the intestine of freshwater catfish Clarias batrachus/Smita Shukla, Sujata K. Dass and D.N. Saksena. 11. Toxicity of cadmium to the rostral pars distalis of Rasbora daniconius/Monica K. Kale, P.P. Joshi and G.K. Kulkarni. 12. Study of the length-weight relationship and population structure of chocolate Mahseer Neolissocheilus hexagonolepis (McClelland) in Shally lake in Arunachal Pradesh/Boni Amin Laskar, Azen Pujen and Pronob Nath. 13. A study of arsenic effect on blood and tissue glucose concentrations in a fish model/Nimai Chandra Saha, Trilochan Midya and Nirmal Kumar Sarkar. 14. Effect of chlorine on common carps/C. Bala Murali Krishna. 15. Pesticide induced impairment on the carbohydrate metabolism in the fish Mystus vittatus/R. Sonaraj, A.J.A. Ranjit Singh and A. Pushparaj. 16. A study on biochemical changes in liver due to sugar mill effluent in freshwater fish Cirrhinus mrigala/K. Shanthi, N. Saradhamani and J. Smitha. 17. Impact of fungicide Validacin-3L on bioenergetics of the freshwater fish silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix/S. Athikesavan, S. Vincent and B. Velmurugan. 18. Evaluation of sensory and proximate composition of the fish Cyprinus carpio at refrigeration storage (40C) /V. Indira, A. Kumaresan and P. Dhasarathan. 19. Pesticidal stress influenced respiratory alterations in the freshwater fish, Mystus vittatus/R. Sonaraj, A.J.A. Ranjit Singh and A. Pushparaj and G. Ramathilagam. 20. Effect of stocking density on the blood parameters of goldfish Carassius auratus/A. Elezabeth Mary and M. Sakthivel. 21. Biochemical studies of insulin effect on freshwater fish, Oreochromis mossambicus: 2. On muscle tissue/M.R. Delphine Rose, W. Premasugantha, A. Jeyaseeli, S. Anitakannagi and M. Narayanan. 22. Observations on a trypanosome trypanosoma notopterae n.sp. from a freshwater teleost fish, Notopterus notopterus (Pallas)/T.K. Kundu and Monali Chatterjee. 23. A study on the selection of habitat by the post larval and juvenile banana shrimp, Penaeus merguiensis in and around Kali estuary, Karwar/Sampath Kumar S. and Kusuma Neelakantan. 24. Impact of flyash of a thermal power station on biochemical parameters of a shrimp, Penaeus monodon inhabiting ennore brackishwater/E. Ekambaram and D. Sudarsanam. 25. Studies on the correlation between the neurosecretory activity and ovarian cycle of a freshwater prawn Macrobrachium dayanum (Henderson,1893)/K. Borara and Arvind Kumar. 26. Effect of monocrotophos on biochemical markers DNA and RNA in cyprinus carpio during exposure and recovery period/C. Maruthanayagam and G. Sharmila. 27. Length-weight relationship of the Gobiid fish pseudapocryptes lanceolatus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) of the Vasista Godavari Estuary, East Coast of India/K.V.C.S. Appa Rao and K. Sreeramulu. 28. Molecular identification of two potential probiotic bacteria bacillus circulans PB 7 and bacillus sp. PP 9 and three fish pathogenic aeromonas hydrophila AH1, AH2 and AH3 in the Indian major carps catla catla (Ham.), Labeo rohita (Ham.) and Cirrhinus mrigala (Ham.)/Partha Bandyopadhyay and Bidhan C. Patra. II. Aquatic Environment: 29. Study of the influence of aquaculture development on environment: a remote sensing approach/P. Venkateswarlu, M.V. Rao, Kiran and Ramamohan. 30. Use of biogas slurry as a fish pond manure/Sarbjit Singh Sooch, Asha Dhawan and Davinder Pal Singh. 31. Water quality and aquatic biodiversity of Merakhong river, Manipur/Haobijam Dhamendra and Laishram Kosygin. 32. Heavy metal accumulation in seaweeds in polluted and unpolluted estuaries/K. Sasikumar and A.N. Subramaniyan. 33. Assessment of copper concentrations in two freshwater reservoirs of Nanded, Maharashtra state/G. Gyananath, S.V. Shewdikar, T.A. Kadam, S.K.G.K. Charyulu and R.S. Rao. 34. Ecological imbalance by reservoirs/V. Srihari and C.R. Suribabu. 35. Air borne fungal spores at Sharavathi reservoir, Karnataka, India/K. Harish Kumar, B.R. Kiran , R. Purushotham, E.T. Puttaiah and S. Manjappa. 36. Study of water quality parameters in selected areas of Karnataka state/Oinam Jayalakshmi Devi and S.L. Belagali, Regina Sharmila Dass and G.R. Janardhana. 37. Hydrological studies for dams in ungauged small catchments: a case study/Er. Sarbjit Singh Sooch, Er. Deepak Gupta and N.K. Khullar. 38. Impact of tourist influx on the courtallam water quality index/G. Gitanjali and A. Kumaresan. 39. Fluoride concentrations of water in Vrishabhavathi river basin, Bangalore district, Karnataka/Y.M. Muniraju, H.C. Vajrappa and J.M. Neelakantarama. 40. Assessment of water quality of Harishankar Spring: a pilgrimage place of western Orrisa/S. Naik and R.K. Patel. 41. Toxicological evaluation of sugar mill solid waste (leachate) using duckweed (lemna minor) bioassay/Prabhakar Pratap Singh, Vinod Kumar Chaudhary and B.C. Srivastva. 42. Seasonal fluctuation of primary production in Bonal reservoir, Gulbarga district, Karnataka/H. Anjinappa and K. Vijaykumar. 43. Computer models and water resources engineering/Nirmalya Bayal. 44. Physico-chemical studies on pollution in river Sengar at district Etawah (U.P.)/K.K. Saxena, Raj Narayan and Yogesh Babu Dixit. 45. Distribution of nutrients at different seasons in Tharangambadi-Vanjur coasts, South East coast of India/P. Martin Deva Prasath and T. Hidayathullakhan. 46. Diversity of Phyto and zooplankton with reference to pollution status of Kalavam Bazaar lake, Arcot, Vellore district/V. Indra, V. Prabakaran and R. Balachandar. 47. Zooplankton diversity in the Chennai coast, Tamil Nadu/V. Indra and R. Ramanibai. 48. Biodiversity of Chlorophyceae in Haranbari dam of Baglan (Maharashtra)/N.H. Aher and S.N. Nandan. 49. Physico-chemical characteristics of Khari Nadi water, Agra/ Sunita Solanki, K.S. Rana and Arun Kumar Singh. 50. Occurrence of a cyanophycean bloom in Mallapura tank near Chitradurga, Karnataka/A.B. Banakar, B.R. Kiran , R. Purushothama, E.T. Puttaiah and S. Manjappa. 51. Study of Sitarampur dam, Saraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand to evolve strategies for biodiversity conservation/Gouri Suresh. 52. Studies on the ecology of chlorococcales of Sitarampur dam, Jharkhand, India/Gouri Suresh and Meena Krishnan. 53. Detection of trace elements in Dahod reservoir water, Raisen district, M.P./Arun Singh, H.C. Kataria and Subhash Pandey. 54. Limnological studies of Nambol river, Manipur with a note on its aquatic bioresearches/R.K. Rajeshwari Devi, Haobijam Dhamendra, R.K. Gyaneshwari and Laishram Kosygin. Index.

"Fishes are the most primitive vertebrates from which all other vertebrates including man has evolved. They are adapted to aquatic life with gills to breathe and fins to move about, although a few species can move on land and breathe air. They show a great diversity of form, habitat and are adapted to a wide range of environment. Human race has been associated with fish life from time immemorial. In the field of fisheries, conservation and utilization of fish is important as fish is major food source harvested from natural populations. Due to population explosion, high degrees of pollution, urbanization, industrialization and indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizer and pesticides in agriculture, fish biodiversity is losing at an alarming rate. Hence, fish management is the prime need of the time.

    The present book entitled "Fish Management and aquatic environment" is the compilation of some most recent research articles of eminent scientists from different parts of the country. With its application-oriented approach, the book would be immensely useful to everyone dealing with aquacultural science, such as university teachers, farmers, academics, technocrats, politicians, researchers and post-graduate students as well." (jacket)