Fish and River Pollution
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Fish and River Pollution

  1. 212 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Fish and River Pollution

About this book

Fish and River Pollution deals with experimental and field research connected with the effects of pollution in fish, and the useful data gathered from these studies. After reviewing some experiments made on the effects of pollution on fish, the author discusses pollution by oxygen-reducing effluents such as sewage, milk washing, and other solutions that can be broken down by microorganisms, a process that uses up dissolved oxygen in the water. The experiments conducted by Shelford and Allee, which the author cites, studies the reactions of fish to different concentrations of atmospheric gases, particularly as fish detect low concentrations of oxygen more sensitively than man. The paper also discusses the time-effect relationship of a toxic substance to fish as immersion time, time needed for advancement, minimum time of exposure, and immersion time to fatality. The effect of thermal pollution such as that generated in thermal plants to produce electricity, though chemically toxic-free, can significantly change the temperature of the water where fish live. Such temperature change can affect water viscosity, rate of water oxygen absorption, development of sewage fungus, and changes in natural invertebrate fauna. This book can be appreciated by environmentalists, aquatic researchers, zoologists, and marine biologists.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Fish and River Pollution
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. ABBREVIATIONS
  6. PREFACE
  7. CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: A BRIEF HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL WORK ON THE EFFECTS OF POLLUTION ON FISH
  8. CHAPTER 2. FISH AND OXYGEN: POLLUTION BY OXYGEN-REDUCING EFFLUENTS
  9. CHAPTER 3. THE REACTIONS OF FISH TO WATER OF LOW OXYGEN CONCENTRATION
  10. CHAPTER 4. THE MEASUREMENT OF TOXICITY
  11. CHAPTER 5. LEAD, ZINC AND COPPER: THE 'COAGULATION FILM ANOXIA' THEORY
  12. CHAPTER 6. THE METALS AS SALTS
  13. CHAPTER 7. THE RESPIRATORY DEPRESSANTS: CYANIDES AND SULPHIDES
  14. CHAPTER 8. THE INORGANIC GASES
  15. CHAPTER 9. ACIDS AND ALKALIS: pH TOLERANCE LIMITS
  16. CHAPTER 10. SYNTHETIC DETERGENTS AND SOAPS
  17. CHAPTER 11. INSECTICIDES AND HERBICIDES
  18. CHAPTER 12. PHENOL AND OTHER SUBSTANCES ASSOCIATED WITH TAR AND GAS WASTES
  19. CHAPTER 13. THERMAL POLLUTION: THE EFFECT OF HEATED EFFLUENTS
  20. CHAPTER 14. SUSPENDED MATTER
  21. CHAPTER 15. THE TOXICITY OF COMPLEX EFFLUENTS
  22. CHAPTER 16. THE EFFECTS OF POLLUTION ON FISH EGGS
  23. APPENDIX
  24. AUTHOR INDEX
  25. SUBJECT INDEX

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