Rapid bioassessment of macroinvertebrate communities is suitable for monitoring the impacts of fish farm effluents

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• 作者：Rezvan Hatami^a ; ^{rhatami@students.latrobe.edu.au} ; Warren Paul^a ; Nasrollah Mahboobi Soofiani^b ; Saeed Asadollah^b
• 关键词：Macroinvertebrates ; Rapid bioassessment ; Quantitative sampling ; Qualitative sampling ; Trout fish farming ; Iran
• 刊名：Aquaculture
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：1 February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：468
• 期：part_P1
• 页码：19-25
• 全文大小：681 K
• 卷排序：468

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Three methods for biomonitoring of fish farm effluents and receiving waters were compared, ranging from rapid qualitative methods to more time-consuming quantitative methods. The study was conducted at four sites within each of three trout farms of varying production capacities, and across three seasons. PERMANOVA was used to analyze the multivariate macroinvertebrate data, and all three biomonitoring methods detected statistically significant main effects and interactions among the farm, site, and season factors. These results indicate that rapid bioassessment is an effective and cost efficient means for monitoring trout-farm process waters and effluent receiving waters, and as such can improve the economic and environmental sustainability of trout farms.