Impact assessment of pesticide residues in fish of Ganga river around Kolkata in West Bengal

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 157, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 97-104

  Aktar, Md Wasim ^a   Paramasivam, M ^a   Sengupta, Daipayan ^b   Purkait, Swarnali ^b   Ganguly, Madhumita ^b   Banerjee, S ^b  

^a BIDHAN CHANDRA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Fish; Gas chromatography; OC OP pesticides; Pesticide residues; Spatial temporal changes

Indexed keywords

DIMETHOATE; ENDOSULFANS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; LABORATORY PROCEDURES; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; RESIDUAL CONCENTRATIONS; SEWAGE WATER; TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL; UNTREATED SEWAGE; WEST BENGAL;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; FISH; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEATS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE DISPOSAL;

PESTICIDES;

CHLORPHENOTANE; DIMETHOATE; ENDOSULFAN; LINDANE; MALATHION; PESTICIDE RESIDUE;

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FISH; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; RIVER POLLUTION; SEWAGE DISPOSAL;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FISH; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDIA; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SLUDGE TREATMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; DDT; DIMETHOATE; ENDOSULFAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; INDIA; LINDANE; MALATHION; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; PESTICIDES; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; CALCUTTA; EURASIA; GANGES RIVER; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 70349245457     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0518-9     Document Type: Article

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