Tag: water turbidity

First use of “Secchi disk” in measuring water transparency

        Being a simple and useful tool, the “Secchi disc” or “Secchi disk” is widely used as a simple tool for measuring the transparency in water bodies including fish ponds.  The disk is commonly identified by its circular appearance with its black and white quadrates. The simplicity of the disk goes also …

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Lining of whiteleg shrimp (Liptopenaeus vannamei) ponds in India

Credit : G. Venkata Raju (India) –  (gvraju_fisheries@yahoo.co.in) Due to the wind action, the waves created would generally disturb the pond bunds making the pond water in that region more turbid. To arrest recurrent erosion of in shrimp pond, plastic paper lining is laid in some shrimp ponds. Note: We decided not to watermark the photos …

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