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ABSTRACT

Pesticides effluent is a powerful agent of ecological change in rivers, especially in India because major population depends on agriculture. Agriculture in India leads to increase the use of pesticides to full fill the food demand which results in contamination of the river Gomti [1]. Since pesticides are toxic chemicals, they unpropitious affect the non target organisms mainly fishes. The objective of present study was to find the level of persistent organochlorine pesticides (OCP) residue in food fishes of river Gomti. Indian major carps Rohu (Labeo rohita), Catla (Catla catla) and Mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala) are found abundantly in our study area. Among 16 different OCPs tested, DDT and endosulfan were the most frequently detected OCPs.

Keywords: OCP, Pollution, Indian Carps, DDT, Endosulfan