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MABICO - Impact of pollution on biodiversity and the livelihood of coastal dwellers , Subproject 4: Impact of fish parasites on food safety, and its relationship to marine pollution
Project
Project code: 03F0641D
Contract period: 01.03.2012
- 29.02.2016
Budget: 258,595 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
The project aims to evaluate the parasite fauna of commercial important fish from Jakarta Bay, compared to other Indonesian localities. Heavy metal pollution and untargeted analyses of fish helminths that highly accumulate these contaminants compared with their host fish enables an estimate of different pollution levels in Indonesian coastal ecosystems. This is done in order to identify the risk for fish consumers of Indonesian fisheries products and to sustain product quality. We also want to use the newly obtained biodiversity data to apply fish parasites as bioindicators for environmental health, supporting stakeholders and decision makers in a better use of Indonesian coastal marine ecosystems.
Fish parasites are of major interest as biological and environmental indicators. The marine environment and environmental change can be studied either directly by regular monitoring of water quality parameters, or indirectly by using bioindicators. These organisms react sensible on specific environmental conditions or change, leading to a wide range of applications. Fish parasites have been successfully applied to describe environmental conditions or environmental stress. Ectocommensals with direct life cycles such as trichodinid ciliates favor polluted waters, and can indicate high bacterial load, in contrast to many endoparasites with complex life cycles that favor stable and non-polluted waters, where the full range of their required hosts is present.
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Subjects
- Marine fisheries
