Impacts of organophosphate pesticide, sumithion on water qualityand benthic i…

This experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of an organophosphate pesticide, sumithion onwater and sediment quality and benthic invertebrates in aquaculture ponds for 120 days. Three treat-ments were tried in duplicate: no sumithion (control), weekly application of 1.0 mg/L sumithion (Lowdose treatment) and 2.0 mg/L sumithion (High dose treatment). Among the different water quality p…