The Status of Water Quality in Various Fish and Shrimp Farms of Sindh Province, Pakistan: Abundance of Planktonic Biomass in Relation to Physicochemical Properties of Pond Water
Rahat Rukhsana1, Shahnaz Rashid2, Asma Fatima2, Owais Iqbal Khan3, Syed Babar Hussain Shah4, Mumtaz Ali4 and Ghulam Abbas2*
1Directorate General of Marine and Coastal Fisheries Development Karachi, Government of Sindh, Pakistan; 2Centre of Excellence in Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Pakistan; 3Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Karachi, Pakistan; 4College of Fisheries, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China.
*Correspondence | Ghulam Abbas, Centre of Excellence in Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan; Email:
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Figure 1:
Relationship between chlorophyll-a concentration and phytoplankton density of different aqua farms located in Sindh province, Pakistan.
Figure 2:
Principal component plot of water quality variables during the study period.
Figure 3:
Scree plot between different principal components and their eigenvalues.
Figure 4:
Fish and shrimp production of different farms located in Sindh province, Pakistan.