Mohammed Ashraful Azam Khan
Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
Yusuf Sharif Ahmed Khan
Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
ABSTRACT
Six experiments were conducted to assess losses, magnitude of infestation and to develop preventive measures for 12 weeks to combat the beetles infestation on sun dried ribbon fish by treating with pirimiphos-methyl at a concentration dose of 0.12, 0.06 and 0.03%, saturated brine solution and dried Bishkatali (Polygonum hydropiper) plants. For comparative studies a batch of ribbon fish was also stored without any treatment as a control. The treatment of 0.12 and 0.06% pirimiphos-methyl showed excellent result against beetles infestation during storage, while the control suffers from effective weight loss of about -25.47% instead of increase due to rise of moisture content. The 0.12 and 0.06% pirimiphos-methyl treated fish showed weight change of +2.94 and -0.96% respectively, which were economic to the traders.
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Mohammed Ashraful Azam Khan and Yusuf Sharif Ahmed Khan, 2001. Insects Infestation and Preventive Measures in Dry Fish Storage of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Journal of Biological Sciences, 1: 963-965.
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2001.963.965
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jbs.2001.963.965
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2001.963.965
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jbs.2001.963.965
Dr. Nurunnabi Reply
Dear sir, good evening. Do you have any idea where I can get the Insecticide - Pirimphos-methyl ? We need the product for UN Mission to kill the harmful insect in Africa. If you have any address, pl let me know. Matter is urgent.
Thanks
Dr. Nurunnabi