Baseline assessment of water quality and ecological indicators in Penaeus vannamei farm wastewater along the Southeast coast of India

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111579

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volume 160, November 2020, 111579

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Highlights

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Penaeus vannamei cultured wastewaters significantly contribute to nutrients pollution.
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This study covers 1076 km coastal area consisting 15 farms in 11 districts from tow states.
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Higher level of NO₃, NH₃, THB, TCB, Cu detected in wastewater than the permissible limit
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Plankton diversity was triggered by higher loading of nutrients.
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PCA and CCA suggest that total nitrogen plays vital role in wastewater.

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the water quality characteristics and the ecological indicators of wastewater of white legged shrimp Penaeus vannamei ponds along the Southeast coast of India. The wastewater samples were collected from 15 shrimp farms covering 11 districts located along the coastal line of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, India. By adopting standard methods, the collected samples were subjected to analyses of physico-chemical and biological characteristics, especially the microbial load and metal and plankton composition. The nitrate-nitrogen, ammonia-nitrogen, THB, TCB, and Cu concentrations of the samples were found to exceed the permissible limit as recommended by WHO, USEPA, CPCB, and CAA. Principal component analysis and canonical correspondence analysis have suggested that the phosphate, nitrate, silicate, ammonia, and total phosphorus are the important chemical factors. The generated data would be of interest to farmers for their shrimp crop management vis-à-vis culture pond wastewater treatment.

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CRediT authorship contribution statement

S. Dinesh Kumar: Conceptualization, Methodology, Formal analysis, Writing - original draft. P. Santhanam: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. N. Krishnaveni: Formal analysis. P. Raju: Formal analysis. A. Begum: Writing - review & editing. S. U. Ahmed: Software & editing. P. Perumal: Writing - review & editing. B. Dhanalakshmi: Writing - review & editing. Mi-Kyung Kim: Software, Writing - review & editing.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgements

The authors are thankful to the Head, Department of Marine Science and the authorities of Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-24, for the facilities provided. One of the authors (SDK) thanks the UGC, New Delhi, for providing Post-Doctoral Fellowship to carry out this study (Ref. No. F./31-1/2017/PDFSS-2017 - TAM-13681 dated 19.06.2017).

Ethical approval

This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.

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BaselineBaseline assessment of water quality and ecological indicators in Penaeus vannamei farm wastewater along the Southeast coast of India

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CRediT authorship contribution statement

Declaration of competing interest

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Talanta

Expert Syst. Appl.

Mar. Pollut. Bull.

Aquaculture Rep

Anal. Chim. Acta