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Global warming/climate change is the greatest environmental threat of our time. Rapidly developing aquaculture sector is an anthropogenic activity, the contribution of which to global warming is little understood, and estimation of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emission from the aquaculture ponds is a key practice in predicting the impact of aquaculture on global warming. A comprehensive methodology was developed for sampling and simultaneous analysis of GHGs, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) from the aquaculture ponds. The GHG fluxes were collected using cylindrical acrylic chamber, air pump, and tedlar bags. A cylindrical acrylic floating chamber was fabricated to collect the GHGs emanating from the surface of aquaculture ponds. The sampling methodology was standardized and in-house method validation was established by achieving linearity, accuracy, precision, and specificity. GHGs flux was found to be stable at 10 ± 2 °C of storage for 3 days. The developed methodology was used to quantify GHGs in the Pacific white shrimp Penaeus vannamei and black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon culture ponds for a period of 4 months. The rate of emission of carbon dioxide was found to be much greater when compared to other two GHGs. Average GHGs emission in gha−1 day−1 during the culture was comparatively high in P.vannamei culture ponds.
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The authors are thankful to present and former Directors of Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA) and funding from National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) project of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR).
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Vasanth, M., Muralidhar, M., Saraswathy, R. et al. Methodological approach for the collection and simultaneous estimation of greenhouse gases emission from aquaculture ponds. Environ Monit Assess 188, 671 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-016-5646-z
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