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Abstract
The use of pesticides has become a common practice in todays agricultural work in large scale to advance the production of crops. Pesticides help to control or kill harmful pests without harming humans directly, when used cautiously in regulated quantities. The water quality is a very important parameter in reproduction and growth of aquatic organisms like fishes. Pesticides not only change the quality of water like its chemical composition, pH etc but also decreases the oxygen level. Fishes consumes the oxygen present in water and along with that the pesticides enter the internal organs too. Fishes are very sensitive towards minute changes in the water composition and pesticides even when used in small quantities, causes changes in water composition and thus causes changes in the internal structure of fish organs slowly. Fish is high in omega-3 and protein; lipids that the human body needs to stay healthy. However, potentially dangerous pesticides are absorbed in the body tissues of fish. Physical reactions of fish to lethal concentrations of pesticides were examined along with control group. The control group showed normal behavior. No immediate change in swimming pattern and opercula movements was noted.
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