7 Effects of Herbicides on Fish

Herbicides are used to control weeds and are usually targeted to processes and target sites that are specific to plants. As a result, most herbicides are not acutely toxic to fish. Exceptions to this general rule are uncouplers of oxidative phosphorylation and some herbicides that interfere with cell division. Chronic and sublethal effects have been studied for some herbicides, but fewer data are available for these effects than for acute …