{"id":509,"date":"2025-05-07T18:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T21:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ingenieria.uner.edu.ar\/nucleos\/quimica_ambiental\/?p=509"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:18:07","slug":"the-problem-with-implementing-fish-farms-in-agricultural-regions-a-trial-in-a-pampean-pond-highlights-potential-risks-to-both-human-and-fish-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ingenieria.uner.edu.ar\/nucleos\/quimica_ambiental\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/the-problem-with-implementing-fish-farms-in-agricultural-regions-a-trial-in-a-pampean-pond-highlights-potential-risks-to-both-human-and-fish-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with implementing fish farms in agricultural regions: A trial in a pampean pond highlights potential risks to both human and fish health."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"509\" class=\"elementor elementor-509\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b98913 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1b98913\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76a16b9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"76a16b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p><p><br \/>The safety of creating fish farms in agricultural settings was evaluated by growing Piaractus mesopotamicus in a pond, while crops where cultivated in a nearby field under a pesticide application regime typical of the Pampa region. Atrazine, glyphosate and its metabolite, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), were detected in the water of the pond at concentrations ranging between 92 and 118 \u03bcg\/L for atrazine, 12 and 221 \u03bcg\/L for glyphosate and 21 and 117 \u03bcg\/L for AMPA. Atrazine and malathion were detected in fish muscles at concentrations ranging between 70 and 105 \u03bcg\/kg for atrazine and 8.6 and 23.7 \u03bcg\/kg for malathion. Compared to fish raised in a pisciculture, fish from the agricultural pond presented reduced values of pack cell volume, hemoglobin, mean corpuscular hemoglobin and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, together with significantly greater cholinesterase activity in both plasma and liver and reduced glutathione-S-transferase activity in the liver. A comet assay also demonstrated that P. mesopotamicus from the agricultural pond presented a significantly greater level of DNA damage in both erythrocytes and gill cells. Overall, the present study demonstrates that pisciculture ponds established in an agricultural setting may receive pesticides applied to nearby cultures and that these pesticides may be taken up by the fish and affect their physiology and health. The accumulation of pesticides residues in fish flesh may also present a risk to human consumers and should be closely controlled.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Highlights<\/strong><br \/><br \/>\u2022Atrazine, Glyphosate and AMPA were detected in the water of the pond.<br \/><br \/>\u2022Atrazine and malathion were detected in fish muscle.<br \/><br \/>\u2022Exposure to pesticides caused DNA damage in the fish.<br \/><br \/>\u2022Exposure to pesticides inhibited GST activity in the liver.<br \/><br \/>\u2022Exposure to pesticides induced cholinesterase activity in both liver and plasma.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-046db2c elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"046db2c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.chemosphere.2020.128408\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">VER PUBLICACI\u00d3N<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract The safety of creating fish farms in agricultural settings was evaluated by growing Piaractus mesopotamicus in a pond, while crops where cultivated in a nearby field under a pesticide application regime typical of the Pampa region. Atrazine, glyphosate and its metabolite, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), were detected in the water of the pond at concentrations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publicaciones-publicaciones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingenieria.uner.edu.ar\/nucleos\/quimica_ambiental\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingenieria.uner.edu.ar\/nucleos\/quimica_ambiental\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingenieria.uner.edu.ar\/nucleos\/quimica_ambiental\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingenieria.uner.edu.ar\/nucleos\/quimica_ambiental\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingenieria.uner.edu.ar\/nucleos\/quimica_ambiental\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ingenieria.uner.edu.ar\/nucleos\/quimica_ambiental\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/ingenieria.uner.edu.ar\/nucleos\/quimica_ambiental\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingenieria.uner.edu.ar\/nucleos\/quimica_ambiental\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingenieria.uner.edu.ar\/nucleos\/quimica_ambiental\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingenieria.uner.edu.ar\/nucleos\/quimica_ambiental\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}