Assessment of the physico-chemical and biochemical status of selected ponds with emphasis on improving conditions for fish rearing in nagongera town council, tororo district.
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2024
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Busitema University
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Ponds are water resources that provide food in form of fish in both rural and urban places all over the world, countries that lack natural water resources like lakes and rivers for fish rearing such as Singapore utilize and rely on ponds for fish production. Many fish farmers worldwide lack adequate knowledge on fish pond management and this leads to low production in the pond. There is limited research study in ponds hence poor managerial skills and need for urgent interventions by governments and non- governmental organizations such as WHO to calm the situation. There is need for technological advancement in fish pond management monitoring strategies for the physical-chemical and bio-chemical status to improve fish rearing conditions. In Africa there is much low technological use in pond management strategies to ensure pond status is kept ideal for fish rearing e.g. the use of sensor networks to monitor physical and biochemical pond status Uganda fish rearing is a lucrative venture currently though more sensitization and education of farmers about fish farming is very low hence farmers lack adequate skills in pond management to rear good quality fish. In Nagongera, ponds support a dynamic and rapidly growing population of people with income and food in form of fish. Tororo district in particular Nagongera has no major lake that can provide adequate fish supply apart from importing from outside the district, from a few rivers and ponds. Ponds suffer anthropogenic disturbances for example, poor fishing methods e.g. poisoning whose impact on the integrity of the pond systems is a subject of concern farmers in Nagongera also face challenges of floods which sweep their fish away and destroy the ponds, lack of adequate labor, lack of a variety of fish species, thieves who fish without permission. Mantainace of biochemical and physical chemical parameters confers good fish living conditions conditions that is to say temperature, pH, turbidity, nutrient loading i.e., phosphates. These can be used to assess the biological status of the ponds at both local and global level with an intention of discovering the effect of the variations in the parameters on fish rearing to improve its quality. In this research selected water parameters we're measured and used to assess pond water quality and predict the fish living conditions. Using the set optimal level the, the results measured were compared and conclusions made
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Mumbere, M. (2024). Assessment of the physico-chemical and biochemical status of selected ponds with emphasis on improving conditions for fish rearing in Nagongera Town Council, Tororo District. [Undergraduate, Research Report]. Busitema University.