Water Quality in Commercial Channel Catfish Ponds and Its Receiving Water Bodies

차넬메기 양어장의 수질과 주변 자연 하천수와의 관계

  • SEOK Kyu-jin (Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University) ;
  • BOYD C. E. (Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University)
  • Published : 1993.08.01

Abstract

Studies related to water quality in catfish ponds were conducted on commercial catfish production ponds and compared with its receiving streams' water quality in central and west-central Alabama. The ponds were stocked with 10,000 fish/ha. The ponds were aerated nightly (0000-0600 hrs). Fish were fed to satiation at about the same time, six-days a week. In order to assess the pollutional strength of effluents from commercial channel catfish ponds, water samples were collected during each calender season from fall 1990 through summer 1991, and selected water quality variables were monitored. Mean values for water temperature, dissolved oxygen concentration, pH, settleable solids, total suspended soilds, volatile solids, total phosphorus, soluble reactive phosphate, biochemical oxygen demand, total ammonia nitrogen, nitrite, nitrate, and total Kjeldahl nitrogen were basically the same (P> 0.05) between samples taken from the surface and near the bottom. Concentrations of most water quality variables of catfish ponds were higher than those of receiving streams, and especially it had much higher average concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus than streams.

미국 알라바마주의 중서부 지역에 밀집되어 있는 차낼메기 양어장의 수질을 조사하여 양어장 물이 배출되는 그 주변 하천의 수질과 비교하였다. 양어장의 사육 밀도는 헥타르당 10,000마리였으며, 밤 동안(0000-0600)에는 산소를 공급하기 위하여 수차를 사용하였고, 먹이 공급은 일주일에 6일 동안 하였다. 메기 양어장에서 방류되는 사육수의 오염 정도를 알아보기 위하여 양어장의 표층 30cm와 저층에서 1990년과 1991년에, 계절별로 시료를 채취하여 수질 변수를 측정하였다. 수온, 용존산소, pH, 침전성물질, 총부유물질, 휘발성물질, 총인, 용존인, BOD, 총암모니아, 아질산염, 질산염, 그리고 총켈달질소의 평균값은 표층과 저층의 시료사이에 차이가 없었다 (P>0.05). 양어장의 수질은 주변 하천수에 비해서 오염도가 높았으며, 특히 질소와 인의 농도는 아주 높았다.

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