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Published on: July 1, 2016
Fresh water fishes as indicators of Kaveri River pollution
T S Saravanan1, M Aneez Mohamed, R Chandrasekar
1PG Department of Zoology, Jamal Mohamed College, Trichirappalli-620 020, India. tsszo@jmc.edu
Abstract:
The survey of fish fauna in Kaveri River at polluted and unpolluted sites revealed a direct effect on the distribution of fishes in that 14 species were observed in unpolluted site and only 6 species in polluted site. Further, the haemotological parameters like RBC, WBC and haemoglobin content increased in fishes collected from polluted site whereas the organic constituents of muscle decreased in the above fishes when compared to the fishes of unpolluted site. The reason for the above changes is discussed.
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