Aquatic Environment And Toxicology

Water is elixir of life but the man has miserably failed to recognize this fact for the future generations. No doubt, India has a variety of lentic and lotic water resources, unprecedented development at all fronts associated with population explosion and mushroom growth of industries causes a rapid deterioration in the quality of aquatic environment. The environment is emerging as multidisciplinary faculty and aquatic environment has gained new dimensions. The present publication has been edited to reflect various aspects of aquatic environment with species emphasis on toxicology. This book is a unique compilation of 50 research articles, which will act as a searchlight for academicians, researchers, scientists, administrators and ecoplanners, which are working in the field of hydrobiology and aquacultural strategies. Contents Section I: Aquatic Environment; Chapter 1: Bioindicator as a Tool for Assessment of Aquatic Environment: A Review by Arvind Kumar and Chandan Bohra; Chapter 2: Frequency of External Infection in Liza parsia from Polluted Harbour Waters of Visakhapatnam by B Bharatha Lakshmi, Y Bangaramma and C M Rao; Chapter 3: Cyanobacterial Diversity in Polluted Lakes of Jalgaon District of North Maharashtra by S N Nandan and S R Mahajan; Chapter 4: Studies on Soil Fertility, Productivity and Ecosystem as Influenced by Introduction of Fish and Prawn in Rice-fish Integration System by Rajeeb K Mohanty; Chapter 5: Induced Breeding of Labeo rohita (Hamilton-Buchanan) Using Single Application of Ovaprim in a Controlled Environment Carp Hatchery by Anita Jhajhria; Chapter 6: Evaluation of Growth Patterns of Two Indian Major Carps-Rohu (Labeo rohita) and Mrigal(Cirrhinus mrigala) with Tilapia (Sarotherodon mossambicus) under Mixed Rearing Conditions by T A Sethuramalingam and P Ramakrishnan; Chapter 7: Observations on Three New Species of Myxobolus butschli, 1882 from Hybrid Carps of West Bengal, India by Saugata Basu and D P Haldar; Chapter 8: Allelopathic Potential of Three Aquatic Macrophytes on Growth of Water Hyacinth by Jyoti Gupta and Manjula K Saxena; Chapter 9: Food and Feeding Habit of the Cyprinid Fish Semiplotus manipurensis from Manipur by Laishram Kosygin and Waikom Vishwanath; Chapter 10: A Comparative Study on the Problems and Nature of Assistance availed from the Development Department by the Landless Farm Women Labourers in Irrigated and Rainfed Areas of Shimoga District, Karnataka by K P Raghu Prasad, T Geetha Lakshmi and Dr B Sundaraswamy; Chapter 11: Observations on Mixed Fish Farming of Indian and Exotic Carps in a Seasonal Pond of Jodhpur by Anita Jhajhria; Chapter 12: Water Quality of Well and Bore Well of Ten Selected Locations of Chitrakoot Region by S S Garg; Chapter 13: Physico-chemical and Biological Quality of Ground Water in Mysore City by H R Meenakumari and S P Hosmani; Chapter 14: Physico-chemical Characteristics of Dal Lake Water by Soukat Ara, M A Khan and M Y Zargar; Chapter 15: Ecological Study of Algae of Aner Dam (Maharashtra) by S N Nandan and M R Kumavat; Chapter 16: Ground Water Quality of Block-V Srisailam Right Branch Canal Command Area, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh by B Kotaiah and S Sreedhar Reddy; Chapter 17: Ecological Status of Sitapur Pond at Haridwar (Uttaranchal) by D R Khanna and Rakesh Bhutiani; Chapter 18: Seasonal Variation in Biochemical Composition in the Muscle Tissue of Mugil cephalus, Linnaeus and Liza macrolepis (Smith) in Relation to their Maturity Stages by G Sivani and L M Rao; Chapter 19: Water Quality and Phytoplankton Abundance in the South Indian River, Tamiraparani by Martin P and M A Haniffa; Chapter 20: Macrobenthic Molluscan Spectrum in the Coastal West Bengal by Abhijit Mitra, Amitava Aich, Amalesh Choudhury and D P Bhattacharyya; Chapter 21: Status of Andaman Sea Ecology: Past, Present and Future by I K Pai; Chapter 22: Variations of Some Abiotic and Biotic Factors of Fish Culture Ponds Treated with Neem Cake by S K Sarkar; Chapter 23: Enzymatic Evaluation of a Heavily Polluted Lake in Mysore by T B Mruthunjaya and S P Hosmani; Chapter 24: Immunoresponse of Aquatic Molluscs in Biounsafe Environment by Sajal Ray; Chapter 25: Range of Extension of Cat Fish Batasio travancoria Hora and Law to River Thunga in Karnataka Part of Western Ghats, India by Arunachalam, M A Manimekalan, A johnson, R Soranam, A Sankaranarayanan and P Sivakumar; Chapter 26: Relative Condition Factor (Kn) on the Bighead Carp, Aristichthys nobilis (Richardson) by B K Mahapatra and N C Data; Chapter 27: Ground Concentration of Conventional Pollutants from Major Industrial Sources of Visakhapatnam by A S N Murthy, N S Prasad and Krushna Chandra Gouda; Chapter 28: Disease in Aqua-farming can be Challenged through Probiotics: A New Era by Bidhan C Patra and Partha Bandyopadhyay; Chapter 29: Assessment of Water Quality and Self-Purification Process in River Sai at Bela Pratapgarh by Tapan Routh and R K Gupta; Chapter 30: Impact of Degradation of Aquatic Ecosystems on Fisheries: A Case Study of Midnapore District, West Bengal by Tapas Paria and Sushil Kanta Konar; Chapter 31: Benthic Foraminifera in Evaluating Environmental Stresses in Marginal Marine Environment: A Case Study by Sabyasachi Majumdar, Abhijit Mitra, U C Panda and Amalesh Choudhury; Chapter 32: Regression Models for Assessment of Pollutant Loads in a River by M Chandra Sekhar, N V Umamahesh and M V K Satya Prasad; Section II: Toxicology; Chapter 33: Toxicological Effects of Cadmium Chloride on a Fresh Water Fish, Tilapia mossambica, Peters and its Ecological Significance by Nilalohit Harichandan, Bidekananda Beura and A K Panigrahi; Chapter 34: Effect of Malathion-Temperature Combination of Haematologica Parameters of Gobiid Fish, Glossogobius giuris (Ham) by G V Venkataramana, P N Sandhya Rani, M B Nadoni and P S Murthy; Chapter 35: Effects of Sublethal Concentrations of Chromium on Gill Tissues of an Edible Fish Cirrhinus mrigala by P L R M Palaniappan, S Karthikeyan and Selvi Sabhanayakam; Chapter 36: Bioaccumulation and Elimination of Cadmium in Freshwater Fingerlings, Labeo rohita (Ham) by P L R M Palaniappan, G Jagadeesan, P Venkatachalam, N Krishnakumar and S Karthikeyan; Chapter 37: Herbicides Induced Alterations on Some Haematological Parameters of Freshwater Teleost, Clarias Batrachus (Linn) by Anju Kumari and K Pandey; Chapter 38: Heavy Metals in Foraminifera from the Tuticorin Coastal Sediments by N Chandrasekar, Anil Cherian, R Gopinath, M Rajanmanickam; Chapter 39: Heavy Metals in Cultivated Soils and River Sediments and their Correlation Study by B H Patil and V S Shrivastava; Chapter 40: Clinical and Parasitological Studies on Human Fish Borne Trematode Helminthoses with Emphasis on Intestinal Histoenzymatic Changes in Egypt: Comparative Records from India by S I Shalaby, Iman B Mohamed and Neelima Gupta; Chapter 41: A New Kinetic Spectrophotometric Method for the Determination of Mn (II) in Micrograms in Water by R D Kaushik, A K Chaubey and Raghvendra P Singh; Chapter 42: Effect of Lethal Concentration of Metasystox (Oxydemeton-Methyl) on Blood Parameters of an Air Breathing Fish Heteropneustes Fossilis (lich) by Meenaxi Das and Shambhu Prasad; Chapter 43: Acute Toxicity of Fish Fingerlings in Paper Board Mill Effluent by M Elayarajan and P Jothimani; Chapter 44: Sublethal Effects of BHC on Oxygen Consumption by Fish Cyprinus carpio an Role of an Aquaphyte (Chara) as Detoxicant by R Punitha, N Krishnan and G N Subbiah; Chapter 45: “Ochratoxin A”: A Naturally Occuring Mycotoxin Found in Fish Feed Samples by Shambhu Prasad and Shishir K Verma; Chapter 46: FT-IR Study of the Effect of Nickel on the Tissue Proteins of an Edible Fish Cirrhinius mrigala by P L R M Palaniappan, Mrs Selvisabhanayakam, S Karthikeyan, N Krishnakumar and P Venkatachalam; Chapter 47: Metal Concentrations in Water Bodies of Schirmacher Oasis Antarctica: An Assessment by A N Sahi, R K Gupta and S Kaushik; Chapter 48: Toxic Effects of Chromium Sulphate on the Indian Catfish Heteropheustes fossilis (Bloch) in Short-term and Long-term Exposure by D N Roy and N K Dubey; Chapter 49: A Composite Approach for Evaluation of the Effect of Malathion on Gobiid Fish Glossogobius giuris (Ham) by M Ramachandra Mohan; Chapter 50: Acute Toxicity of Carbaryl and Methyl Parathion on Survival of Rana tigrina Tadoples by K Sampath, IJJ Kenneddy and R James.