Aquaculturable fishery resources in wetlands of West Bengal

BAY OF BENGAL PROGRAMME Marine Fishery ResourcesManagement

INTRODUCTION Like most other biologists, fishery biologists often encounter situations where mixtures of distributions need to be separated into their component distributions. Such situations arise when, for example, the counts of different-sizedova in a fish gonad have to be separated into batches that willbe spawned successively,when length-frequencydata have to be separated into age groups o...

Lake Nicaragua Fishery Resources

Arsenic in Drinking Water in West Bengal

gram in Environmental and Occupational Health at UC Berkeley concentrates on two major environmental health issues in the Indian subcontinent: arsenic in drinking water in West Bengal, India, and indoor air pollution in India and Nepal. Local trainees and researchers have had the opportunity to work on related research. Concerning arsenic in drinking water, projects included studies of skin les...

Arsenic and drinking water in West Bengal.

To the Editor: I read the research findings of Basu et al. (1) with great interest. However, there are some points which should be discussed. The authors showed that the level of lymphocytes with micronuclei in control (unexposed) persons was extremely low (1.66%). For example, in some European nations it is between 7% and 18% (2-7), and the least is in Turkish subjects—2.8% (8). According to t...

Arsenic and Drinking Water in West Bengal

To the Editor: I read the research findings of Basu et al. (1) with great interest. However, there are some points which should be discussed. The authors showed that the level of lymphocytes with micronuclei in control (unexposed) persons was extremely low (1.66%). For example, in some European nations it is between 7% and 18% (2-7), and the least is in Turkish subjects—2.8% (8). According to t...