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Heteropneustes fossilis

Vijai Krishna Das, Rakesh Kumar Pandey and Dinesh Kumar

Department of Zoology
Kamla Nehru Institute of Physical and Social Sciences, Sultanpur,
228118, U.P.
£ Pesticides may reach the adjoining water
bodies through runoff and adversely affect
the aquatic organism including the fish
£ ccidental or mal-intentional poisoning of
fish ponds is also reported
£ Pesticides cause extensive damage to
fishery ponds due to large scale fish mortally
and incurring huge financial loss to the
farmers
£ Pesticides affect vital organs and endocrine
glands of Fish
£
hlorpyrifos, an organophosphate
pesticide is one of the most preferred
insecticides in use, because of its
effectiveness against insect and low
mammalian toxicity
£
hlorpyrifos is very toxic to fish
 Number Number Predicted
£ short term (96 h)
onc
Respon proportion
bioassay of exposure Exposed ding Respondi
ng
of chlorpyrifos on
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 1.9  2 .62


 was carried
2.   .1749
out to determine the
2.1  1 .499
L
 values using
EP Probit method 2.2  18 .

(version 1.). 2.  22 .786

2.4  26 .868

2.  28 .9427

2.6  29 .978

2.7   .9928

2.8   .9978
£ he efficacy of low cost adsorbing materials viz. wood
charcoal, rubber granules, bottom ash, macro fungi  
  and 
 were tested for removal of 2,4-D (2,4
dichloro phenoxy acetic acid) and atrazine (2-chloro-4-
ethyamino-6-isopropylamino-1,, triazine) herbicides
from drinking water (ÿ ÿ



 
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†lobal Nest: the Int. J. Vol 2, No 2, pp 19-148, 2)

Bhavana Srivasava et al 29 in Journal of Scientific and
Industrial Research have reported use of ctivated

arbon (
)as useful and a cheaper adsorbent.
he
were sawdust, peat, lignite coal,
oconut shell,
coconut husk, old automobile tires, rice bran and
biomass materials.
£ In our experiment, pieces of banana trunks
were used to study their neutralizing
property on the effect of pesticide toxicity
in the fish ˜
 
 


£ he efficacy of low cost adsorbing materials viz. wood
charcoal, rubber granules, bottom ash, macro fungi  
  and 
 were tested for removal of 2,4-D (2,4
dichloro phenoxy acetic acid) and atrazine (2-chloro-4-
ethyamino-6-isopropylamino-1,, triazine) herbicides
from drinking water (ÿ ÿ



 
ÿ| !ÿÿ"

†lobal Nest: the Int. J. Vol 2, No 2, pp 19-148, 2)

Bhavana Srivasava et al 29 in Journal of Scientific and
Industrial Research have reported use of ctivated

arbon (
)as useful and a cheaper adsorbent.
he
were sawdust, peat, lignite coal,
oconut shell,
coconut husk, old automobile tires, rice bran and
biomass materials.
£ he experiments were carried out at same
parameters. t four different
concentrations of chlorpyrifos (equivalent
to 24, 48, 72 and 96 h L
 values) i.e.
2.4, 2., 2.27 and 2.17 mg/L, small
pieces of banana trunk, in measured
quantity, were mixed and six fishes were
exposed to this solution
£ No mortality occurred at any concentration
of chlorpyrifos solution containing banana
pieces
£ he concentration was further raised to
twice of 24 h L
 (i.e. 2.4 mg/L) with
same amount of banana pieces and no
mortality in fish could be recorded even at
this concentration
£ hese results show that the fish mortality
was drastically reduced in the chlorpyrifos
solution containing banana trunk
£ Banana may be acting as chelating agent
or working as an adsorbent of the
pesticide, therefore, effectively reducing
the lethality and thus the mortality

£ he study may further be extended to

explore the therapeutic property of banana
to use it against accidental poisoning of
fish ponds.
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