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fresh water

[¦fresh ′wȯd·ər]

(hydrology)

Water containing no significant amounts of salts, such as in rivers and lakes.

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In fresh water species, after taking a meal, a mature female Argulus will leave its host and began to lay eggs in rows on any hard, submerged surface.

Review on major parasitic crustacean in fish

Also, a large fraction of land and fresh water species may risk extinction and a warming climate is projected to reduce wheat, rice and corn yields.

Climate change impacts

Among the fresh water species carps are the back bone of Indian freshwater aquaculture comprising around 90% of the total fresh water fish production (FAO 2008).

INDUCED BREEDING EMBRYONIC AND LARVAL DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICALLY ENDANGERED FISH PUNTIUS SARANA (HAMILTON 1822) UNDER CAPTIVE CONDITION