ArticleHeliyon2023
Pond water quality and its relation to fish yield and disease occurrence in small-scale aquaculture in arid areas.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Citizen Science for Water Quality Monitoring: Analyzing Key Parameters, Success Factors, and Research Gaps for Aquaculture.Environmental management · 2025Pooled it
- Preliminary Field Evaluation of a Low-Cost IoT Workflow for Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring and Short-Horizon Forecasting in Nile Tilapia Aquaculture.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Seasonal environmental variation and its association with virulence and antimicrobial resistance in aquatic Pseudomonas aeruginosa.BMC veterinary research · 2026Article
- Habitat-structured fungal mycobiomes at the water-gill interface of farmed red tilapia in Central Thailand: An internal transcribed spacer rRNA amplicon sequencing study.Veterinary world · 2026Article
- Fish Health Management Practices and Disease Occurrence in Pond and Cage Aquaculture Systems in the Pwani, Dar es Salaam, and Mwanza Regions, Tanzania.Veterinary medicine international · 2026Article
- Assessment of water prophylaxis and biosafety in finfish aquaculture - current and emerging technologies.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Dynamics of Bacterial Diversity in Fish Farming Lagoons: Implications for the Ecosystem Trophic Status.Biology · 2025Article
- Regime Shifts in Microbial and Water Quality Dynamics in Red Tilapia Ponds.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Multivariate analyses of water quality indices and incidence of Aeromonas species in water from different holding facilities in Kwara State, Nigeria.BMC veterinary research · 2025Article
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- Antimicrobial Resistance in Aquaculture: Risk Mitigation within the One Health Context.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
The study was conducted to determine the associations between water availability and management practises with pond water parameters in small-scale aquaculture in arid areas. Further, the study determined the associations between fish yield and disease incidence with the pond water parameters. We visited 36 tilapia farmers in Dodoma, a semi-arid region in Tanzania, for interviews and measurements of pond water parameters. The interviews collected information about pond type, pond age, water sources, feed type, pond fertilisation, stocking density, and disease incidences. The sources of water for the aquaculture activities were tap water, boreholes, and shallow wells. The source of water and management practises were linked to the parameters of the pond water. On the other hand, the parameters of the pond water were associated with fish yield and the likelihood of disease occurrence. Fish yield had a non-linear relationship with DO, turbidity, salinity, and stocking density and a linear association with pH. To expand aquaculture development in arid areas, efficient use of water through integrated aquaculture is recommended. Training farmers in good management practises and integration is necessary to ensure sustainable aquaculture development in arid areas.
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