Bera, Aritra
Chadha, Narinder Kumar
Dasgupta, Subrata
Chakravarty, Srijit
Sawant, Paramita Banerjee
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (Doctoral Research)
Article History
Received: 3 September 2019
Accepted: 1 October 2020
First Online: 9 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The research undertaken complies with the current animal welfare laws in India. Care and treatment of fishes used in this study were in accordance with the guidelines of the CPCSEA [(Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals), Ministry of Environment & Forests (Animal Welfare Division), Govt. of India] on care and use of animals in scientific research. The study was undertaken with approval of statutory authorities of the ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, India (Deemed to be University under Sec. 3 of University Grants Commission Act, 1956 and ISO 9001:2015 certified). As the experimental fish, <i>Cyprinus carpio</i> is not an endangered fish; the provisions of the Govt. of India’s Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 are not applicable for experiments on this fish.