Contents: Preface. I. Aquatic environment: 1. Bioindicator as a tool for assessment of aquatic environment: a review/Arvind Kumar and Chandan Bohra. 2. Frequency of external infection in Liza parsia from polluted harbour waters of Visakhapatnam/B. Bharatha Lakshmi, Y. Bangaramma and C.M. Rao. 3. Cyanobacterial diversity in polluted lakes of Jalgaon district of North Maharashtra/S.N. Nandan and S.R. Mahajan. 4. Studies on soil fertility, productivity and ecosystem as influenced by introduction of fish and prawn in rice-fish integration system/Rajeeb K. Mohanty. 5. Induced breeding of Labeo rohita (Hamilton-Buchanan) using single application of Ovaprim in a controlled environment carp hatchery/Amita Jhajhria. 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/T.A. Sethuramalingam and P. Ramakrishnan. 7. Observations on three new species of Myxobolus butschli, 1882 from hybrid carps of West Bengal, India/Saugata Basu and D.P. Haldar. 8. Allelopathic potential of three aquatic macrophytes on growth of water hyacinth/Jyoti Gupta and Manjula K. Saxena. 9. Food and feeding habit of the Cyprinid fish Semiplotus manipurensis from Manipur/Laishram Kosygin and Waikom Vishwanath. 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/K.P. Raghu Prasad, T. Geetha Lakshmi and B. Sundaraswamy. 11. Observations on mixed fish farming of Indian and exotic carps in a seasonal pond of Jodhpur/Anita Jhajhria. 12. Water quality of well and bore well of ten selected locations of Chitrakoot region/S.S. Garg. 13. Physico-chemical and biological quality of ground water in Mysore city/H.R. Meenakumari and S.P. Hosmani. 14. Physico-chemical characteristics of Dal Lake water/Shoukat Ara, M.A. Khan and M.Y. Zargar. 15. Ecological study of algae of Aner Dam (Maharashtra)/S.N. Nandan and M.R. Kumavat. 16. Ground water quality of block-V Srisailam right branch canal command area, Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh/B. Kotaiah and S. Sreedhar Reddy. 17. Ecological status of Sitapur pond at Haridwar (Uttaranchal)/D.R. Khanna and Rakesh Bhutiani. 18. Seasonal variation in biochemical composition in the muscle tissue of Mugil cephalus, Linnaeus and Liza macrolepis (Smith) in relation to their maturity stages/G. Sivani and L.M. Rao. 19. Water quality and phytoplankton abundance in the South Indian river, Tamiraparani/Martin P. and M.A. Haniffa. 20. Macrobenthic molluscan spectrum in the coastal West Bengal/Abhijit Mitra, Amitava Aich, Amalesh Choudhury and D.P. Bhattacharyya. 21. Status of Andaman sea ecology: past, present and future/I.K. Pai. 22. Variations of some abiotic and biotic factors of fish culture ponds treated with neem cake/S.K. Sarkar. 23. Enzymatic evaluation of a heavily polluted lake in Mysore/T.B. Mruthunjaya and S.P. Hosmani. 24. Immunoresponse of aquatic molluscs in biounsafe environment/Sajal Ray. 25. Range of extension of Cat fish Batasio travancoria Hora and law to river Thunga in Karnataka part of Western Ghats, India/M. Arunachalam, A. Manimekalan, A. Johnson, R. Soranam, A. Sankaranarayanan and P. Sivakumar. 26. Relative condition factor (Kn) of the Bighead Carp, Aristichthys nobilis (Richardson)/B.K. Mahapatra and N.C. Datta. 27. Ground concentration of conventional pollutants from major industrial sources of Visakhapatnam/A.S.N. Murty, N.S. Prasad and Krushna Chandra Gouda. 28. Disease in aqua-farming can be challenged through probiotics: a new era/Bidhan C. Patra and Partha Bandyopadhyay. 29. Assessment of water quality and self-purification process in river Sai at Bela Pratapgarh/Tapan Routh and R.K. Gupta. 30. Impact of degradation of aquatic ecosystems on fisheries: a case study of Midnapore district, West Bengal/Tapas Paria and Sushil Kanta Konar. 31. Benthic foraminifera in evaluating environmental stresses in marginal marine environment: a case study/Sabyasachi Majumdar, Abhijit Mitra, U.C. Panda and Amalesh Choudhury. 32. Regression models for assessment of pollutant loads in a river/M. Chandra Sekhar, N.V. Umamahesh and M.V.K. Satya Prasad. II. Toxicology: 33. Toxicological effects of cadmium chloride on a fresh water fish, Tilapia mossambica, Peters and its ecological significance/Nilalohit Harichandan, Bibekananda Beura and A.K. Panigrahi. 34. Effect of Malathion and Malathion-temperature combination of haematological parameters of Gobiid fish, Glossogobius giuris (Ham.)/G.V. Venkataramana, P.N. Sandhya Rani, M.B. Nadoni and P.S. Murthy. 35. Effects of sublethal concentrations of chromium on gill tissues of an edible fish Cirrhinus mrigala/P.L.R.M. Palaniappan, S. Karthikeyan and Selvi Sabhanayakam. 36. Bioaccumulation and elimination of cadmium in freshwater fingerlings, Labeo rohita (Ham.)/P.L.R.M. Palaniappan, G. Jagadeesan, P. Venkatachalam, N. Krishnakumar and S. Karthikeyan. 37. Herbicides induced alterations on some haematological parameters of freshwater Teleost, Clarias Batrachus (Linn)/Anju Kumari and K. Pandey. 38. Heavy metals in foraminifera from the Tuticorin coastal sediments/N. Chandrasekar, Anil Cherian, R. Gopinath and M. Rajamanickam. 39. Heavy metals in cultivated soils and river sediments and their correlation study/B.H. Patil and V.S. Shrivastava. 40. Clinical and parasitological studies on human fish borne trematode helminthoses with emphasis on intestinal histoenzymatic changes in Egypt: comparative records from India/S.I. Shalaby, Iman B. Mohamed and Neelima Gupta. 41. A new kinetic spectrophotometric method for the determination of Mn (II) in micrograms in water/R.D. Kaushik, A.K. Chaubey and Raghvendra P. Singh. 42. Effect of lethal concentration of metasystox (Oxydemeton-methyl) on blood parameters of an air breathing fish heteropneustes fossilis (bloch)/Meenaxi Das and Shambhu Prasad. 43. Acute toxicity of fish fingerlings in paper board mill effluent/M. Elayarajan and P. Jothimani. 44. Sublethal effects of BHC on oxygen consumption by fish Cyprinus carpio and role of an aquaphyte (Chara) as detoxicant/R. Punitha, N. Krishnan and G.N. Subbiah. 45. "Ochratoxin A": a naturally occurring mycotoxin found in fish feed samples/Shambhu Prasad and Shishir K. Verma. 46. FT-IR study of the effect of nickel on the tissue proteins of an edible fish Cirrhinius mrigala/P.L.R.M. Palaniappan, Selvisabhanayakam, S. Karthikeyan, N. Krishnakumar and P. Venkatachalam. 47. Metal concentrations in water bodies of Schirmacher oasis Antarctica: an assessment/A.N. Sahi, R.K. Gupta and S. Kaushik. 48. Toxic effects of chromium sulphate on the Indian Catfish Heteropheustes fossilis (Bloch) in short-term and long-term exposure/D.N. Roy and N.K. Dubey. 49. A composite approach for evaluation of the effect of Malathion on Gobiid fish Glossogobius giuris (Ham.)/M. Ramachandra Mohan. 50. Acute toxicity of carbaryl and methyl parathion on survival of Rana tigrina tadpoles/K. Sampath, I.J.J. Kennedy and R. James. Index.
"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. As we are knocking the door of 21 century, 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 special 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." (jacket)
