The effects of fish farms on water sources

Year 2017, Volume: 2 Issue: 1(3) - Volume 2, Issue 1(3), 130 - 140, 01.06.2017

Emine Su Turan , F. Elcin Erkurt Behzat Balci

Abstract

Fishing and aquaculture have an effect on aqueous medium where these
activities are performed, which is the case in many
other activities. Negative environmental pressures appear with the
industrialization in each production branch. Although the spread of the fishery
industry and the fast growth in aquaculture activities have brought important
socio-economic benefits, they have also caused important ecological changes,
and the negative effects of aquatic ecosystems on water quality and ecologic
structure cause that various concerns are mentioned about the environment. The
changes in water quality, eutrophication, algae explosions, the increase in the
amount of phosphor, the decrease in dissolved oxygen amount, the changes in
benthic fauna, the colonization in filament bacteria, the precipitation of
solid matters, the increase in TSS, turbidity, the change in the color of the
water, smell, disruption in the area use or changes in biological variety are
some of the environmental pressures caused by fishing industry and aquaculture
activities. When these effects are considered, it is easily understood that the
fishery and aquaculture activities in aquatic media may damage the conformity
of the water sources for drinking and usage, they may even cause that these
sources disappear completely. In order to sustain water sources and aquaculture
activities, the factors that might affect the water quality and aquatic
ecosystem must be kept under control both before and during these activities;
and it is also clear that protection and monitoring programs in aquatic systems
are necessary and wise planning and management strategies must be prepared for
these purposes.

Keywords

The effects of fish farms on water sources

References

• Emine Su Turan1* , F. Elcin Erkurt2, Behzat Balci3
• Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, Cukurova University, 01330, Balcali/Adana, Turkey1,2,3 Tel: [phone] e-mail1*: [e-mail]