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AGULAY . BOTAVARA . GABULE . GALLARDO . PAASA
FRESHWATER
FISHES
AS INDICATORS OF WATER QUALITY IN RIVERS
RIVERS
provide life-sustaining
supplies of water and
important nutrients for
living organisms around
many rivers
have been
altered for the
purposes of
water
provisioning,
with little
concern for
dependent
Freshwater fishes are entirely
dependent on these habitats
for their existence and
survival and their
dependence renders them
extremely vulnerable to
anthropogenic influence in
the form of habitat
alteration, degradation of
water quality and barriers
In contaminated waters, fish may exhibit whole
animal, morphological, histopathological, cellular,
organismic, or parasitic aspects of abnormalities,
KAO-PING RIVER
TONGKONG RIVER
ERA-JIIN RIVER
LIN-BIEN RIVER
Table 1. Main Pollution Sources of Four Contaminated
Rivers in Southern Taiwan
Fig.1 Tilapia with Body Lesions Fig.2 Tilapia with Mass on One Side of
and Necrosis and Split and
Lesioned Fins
The prevalence of deformities such as split fins,
lower lip extension and gill deformities were
significantly related to various water quality
parameters, including low DO and high
ammonium, lead and zinc concentrations