Importance of Water Quality in Aquaculture

Fish performs all their activities in water. Because fish are totally dependent upon water to breathe, feed and grow, reproduce, excrete wastes and maintain salt balance understanding the physical and chemical qualities of water is critical to successful aquaculture. To a great extent water determines the success or failure of an aquaculture operation.

Water sources for aquaculture may sometimes be of low quality or polluted by human activity. But the primary reason for bad water quality is the due to the activity in the culture.

Manures, antibiotics, feeds etc are applied to ponds to increase production, but this is only partially converted to animal biomass the rest is adding up to the culture if not degraded properly. During high production levels, the input of feeds and nutrients may exceed the capacity that the aquaculture environment can sustain and affects the water quality in a negative way.

Poor water quality will lead to stress, poor growth, low immunity to diseases, low survival rate adding up to low production.

Constant check of water quality and application of right probiotics, herbal extracts and enzymes in a controlled manner is a natural solution to check and maintain good water quality in Aquaculture along with promoting fish growth and survival rate thus helping the farmer make profit with sustainability.