IMPACT OF PAPER AND PULP MILL EFFLUENT IN CAUVERY RIVER WATER

The nutritive and medicinal value of the fish has been recognized from time immerial. The realization of the importance of the fish as food has initiated the development of fisheries. This is because fisheries from one of the important biotic resources of man. However, fisheries of our inland waters have been greatly depleted in a last few years on account of pollution of natural waters. The pollutants are easily made access into the body of the fish through the gills. As a result, the biochemical composition which determines the nutritive value of the fish is affected by the water pollutants.