EFFECT OF PYRETHROID CYPERMETRIN ON HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN FRESHWATER FISH Channa punctatus

Abstract

Pesticides are modern chemicals, which are used to kill the harmful insect, weed etc. of the crops, when they are applied on crop they also leached into soil and reach to water bodies. In water bodies they affect the aquatic life including fishes. The edible fishes are consumed by human and other livings. So they reached to next trophic level by biotransformation and causing adverse effects to living. Fishes are best bioindicator for these pesticides. Keeping these points in view, present study is designed to observe the effect of pyrethroid cypermethrin on hematological parameters viz. hemoglobin concentration, total leucocyte count, differential leucocyte count in freshwater fish Channa punctatus.